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California in Miniature. 

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California's Netherlands. 

Coast Line Resorts. 

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Land of Opportunity. 

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SUNSET MAGAZINE, 

Profusely illustrated, 
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CHAS. S. FEE, T. H. GOODMAN, 

PASS. TRAFFIC MGR. GEN. PASS. AGENT 

MERCHANTS EXCHANGE BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



CALIFORNIA 



SOUTH OF TEHACHAPI 



FROM NOTES 

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PREFA CE. 



No one is in a better position than the railroad 
agent to knozv of the prosperity of the country trib- 
utary to his station; no one else has so complete a 
record of its commercial life, nor comes in so general 
contact with its people. 

It seems fitting, therefore, besides giving added 
value to "California South of Teha\chapi ,y as a work 
of accuracy, that in presenting the eighth edition, 
and the one hundred and eightieth thousand, due 
acknowledgment should be made to the contributors 
-—the Agents of the Southern Pacific. Every agent 
between Santa Barbara, Mojave and Yuma con ■ 
tribute d; and as successive editions appeared, 
changes have been made by them as needed. 

The photographs which illustrate it were made by 
C. C. Pierce & Co., Putnam & Valentine and 
Howard C. Tibbitts. 



A General View. 

SOUTH of Point Concepcion on the coast of California, a 
range of mountains follows the turn of the shore a little 
way, and then off to the east inland from the ocean 
meets another link in a mountain chain that, with other ranges 
curving to the south, forms a circular mountain wall with its 
ends neighboring the Pacific. Rugged, steep, and high in the 
interior and reaching its climax in snow-capped peaks a hundred 
miles, perhaps, to the east of the sea as a beam of the setting 
sun travels, this wall is irregular, broken and twisted; here 
venturesome mountain spurs make inroads on the valley, there 
the lower country encroaches upon the domain of the hills with 
flaring valleys or narrow passes. High ridges sink into lower 
slopes where ravines lie, and at measured intervals the sentinel 
peaks of Mt. Pinos, Mt. Wilson, Mt. San Antonio, Strawberry 
Peak, Mt. San Bernardino, Mt. San Gorgonio and Mt. San 
Jacinto stand guard. 

Between these mountains and the ocean the country slopes 
gently, little rounded hills in series and in groups making pre- 
tentious efforts to create valleys of their own, the broad beds, 
" washes," of shallow water courses with the broader neighbor- 
ing mesas varying the landscape. 

The shore line curves inward between Point Concepcion and 
San Diego, and a line of summer isles reaching southward from 
the point protects the peaceful waters along the south coast. 

So lies Southern California — Santa Barbara to San Diego. 

It is a country of eternal snow — on mountain peaks 12,000 
feet high ; it is a country of eternal summer — in the smiling val- 
leys radiant with perennial beauty. It is a land of roses, fra- 
grant, beautiful ; it is, too, a land of unbaked Boston beans. It 
is a land of ostriches, and, still more, a land of humming birds. 
Meadow larks unnumbered hail the morning from the upland 
grain fields ; and at night in the fastnesses of the mountains yet 
may be heard the mountain lion. In the late winter and the 
early spring the valleys are a carpet of baby blue-eyes ; and 
up on the higher mountain ridges, usually over the summits 
to the desert sides, majestic pines, too large for the saw-mill, 
lift their heads so high that their vesper songs, when the even- 
ing sea breeze comes, are lost. Southern California is a land 
of celery, for celery flourishes in the lowlands south of Los 
Angeles, and it is a land of salt to season that celery with, for 
out on the California desert broad acres glisten in the sun at a 
lower level still— 200 feet below the surging tide of the ocean. 
It is preeminently a land of magnificent sandy sea beaches, with 




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gentle surf ; it is not less preeminently a country of mountain 
resorts, with sparkling trout streams and pine needle carpets. 
It is a land of long ocean piers and high oil derricks. It is a 
land of many pumpkins to the acre and of many magnificent 
resort hotels. It possesses the most modern and active of cities 
and some quaint and sleepy Spanish pueblos. It has many min- 
eral hot springs and twice a hundred more cool artesian wells, 
some of 400 inches flow. There are broad fields of waving grain 
and fleets of fishing boats. There is a vast network of irrigating 
canals and another network of many well-kept country high- 
ways. It is a land of sweetness, with many thousand acres of 
sugar beets and three large factories; and with every valley 
fringed with honey, for along the foothills and in the mouths 
of canons the hum of industry is apparent around many a hive. 
Large vineyards and canaigre fields neighbor amicably. Yes, it 
is a land of many things — of gold and silver, small fruits, vege- 
tables, flowers, wool, wheat, hay, cattle, cranberries, walnuts, 
almonds, melons, wine, of tourists and of climate. 

But for the moment passing by the climate, Southern Califor- 
nia is above all a land of horticulture; of oranges, lemons, grape- 
fruit, apricots, peaches, pears, olives, prunes, quinces, guavas, 
bananas, loquats, nectarines, pomegranates, cherries, plums. In 
a few years, when the young orchards begin to bear, the 25,000 
carloads of fruits of this season will be doubled. 

The climate possesses an annual mean temperature of about 
62 , and there is nothing very mean about it, either; indeed, it is 
about right; in the dry air of the summer (but not at the coast) it 
wanders up to a hundred degrees, with a much lower sensible tem- 
perature; in winter it draws the line at frosts as a whole, though 
in a few localities the welcome is not so warm as to forbid Jack 
Frost from tarrying a few hours. The climate rejoices in 300 sun- 
shiny days every year ; it invites you to midsummer nights beneath 
clear stars, and open windows in the longer stretches of January 
darkness when the rose-scented air aids to pleasant dreams. It has 
a fraternal feeling for porches, swinging on the gate, long walks, 
bicycling, automobiling and coaching. The genial moon that 
climbs up over the shoulder of the high mountain, shedding a sil- 
very light upon stretches of dark green foliage and reaches of 
white sands, smiles on many a delightful excursion and listens 
often to the echo of the tally-ho. The summer days, clear and 
still, watched by the cool sea breezes of the ocean that come 
gently in, if the thermometer dare but to aspire to unusual height, 
are in the larger part of the country very pleasant indeed; the 
renown of the winter days has made the land one vast resort. 

_ There is no monotony in Southern California, but an alterna- 
tion of sunlight and shadow everywhere. 

" Hills peep o'er hills and Alps on Alps arise," 

and yet the valleys are neither narrow nor confining, often fif- 




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teen miles across from foothills to foothills, and broadening out 
near the ocean in great stretches of level land. 

This is California south of Tehachapi. 

In its compass Dame Nature has scattered health and pleasure 
resorts lavishly — in the pudding is no lack of plums. By the 
ocean, coast and island resorts are attractive the year round; 
in the summer, mountain retreats in both the canons and in the 
little valleys on the ridge tops, are numbered by the hundreds. 
Mineral springs are numerous and health-restoring. Deer, bear, 
wild cats, mountain quail, pigeons and gray squirrels in the 
mountains; and in the valleys and foothills, valley quail, jack- 
rabbits, cottontails and blue rabbits, and in the marshes and 
on lakes and reservoirs, wild fowl in variety and abundance, 
offer an inviting field to Nimrods; the many excellent mountain 
trout streams and the sea fishing between the islands and the 
coast make merry music with the reel. 

In seeing Southern California, any of several points will prove 
satisfactory headquarters, but to the majority of visitors Los 
Angeles and its seaside and foothill suburbs offer perhaps the 
greatest advantages as starting points. 

A geographic division is made of the pleasure, and in the 
following pages the observer is taken from one point to another 
in the order that best will utilize the comprehensive local train 
service of the Southern Pacific Company. The order of the 
trip may be varied to suit personal convenience or the wishes of 

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resident friends ; but omit nothing. Do not lay down the story 
unfinished. In the back of the book are the Statistics for the 
"figure heads." 

Ancient Rome was a wonderful city, built on hills and among 
its contemporaries remarkable for its municipal improvements 
and its public spirit. Los Angeles is partly built on hills, on more 
LOS ANQELbS ^iUs than Rome ever knew, and it is rightly 
proud of its improvements and its standing 
among its contemporaries. There the comparison ends, for a res- 
ident of Los Angeles, accustomed to its conveniences and attrac- 
tions, could, if translated, spend scarcely a comfortable day and 
night in ancient Rome, and very likely would be found laying out 
a new town on the right side of the Tiber the next morning. 

There are 150,000 people in the limits of Los Angeles, and of 
these some 125,000 have come through the city's gates with their 
lares and penates since 1880, or have been lucky enough to have 
been born there since that date. Built in the span of a child's life, 
the city has a more modern appearance than that of any other 
metropolis in the world — it is representative of all the great im- 
provements in civic architecture in the last decade. An unusually 
high level of intelligence and great wealth have joined its wonder- 
ful growth to make a result worthy of pride. The Los Angeles 
of the older days is like the fragment of a half-forgotten dream — 



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the Plaza, the Mission Church, the remnants of Sonora town or 
the quaint home of some old-time dignitary, serve to stir the 
imagination and to remind the visitor that here half a century ago 
another civilization existed; but in the Los Angeles of to-day the 
pueblo plays no part and the sound of the Angelus is lost in 
the city's roar. 

Los Angeles is a city of commanding views; it sweeps down 
from the heights toward the ocean and the setting sun. From a 
thousand vantage points vast panoramas of landscape, of moun- 
tain, ocean and valley delight the eye. It is a city perfumed with 
roses; it is garlanded everywhere with flowers thriving in peren- 
nial beauty; and miles upon miles of paved boulevards, in far- 
reaching level vistas, over-arched with the bending branches of 
protecting trees, or winding through canons, along bold brows of 
the hills or over the ridge tops, are endless invitations to travel. 

The palm, magnolia, pepper, eucalyptus, acacia, china berry, 
grevilla, catalpa, umbrella tree, and the endless cypress, and many 
of the trees familiar in the East as favorites furnishing drive-way 
shadow, are everywhere. Broad-leafed bananas, mammoth cen- 
tury plants, tree geraniums and housetop-reaching roses give the 
city a semi-tropic, gala-day appearance. 

A veritable park itself, the city has numerous well-kept pleas- 
ure grounds, of which the best improved are Westlake, Eastlake, 



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Hollenbeck and Elysian Parks. Up in the hills, Griffith Park, a 
natural scenic land of 3000 acres, possesses wonderful possibilities, 
and in a few years will become the city's greatest attraction. 
Indeed, before long, with the aid of the semi-tropic climate, these 
parks will all present a beauty now beyond comprehension. 

The business streets of the city are of unusually impressive 
appearance. This is partly due to its growing and active life, 
partly to the excellent character of its paved streets, partly to the 
complete intramural car service that has grown beyond the origi- 
nal plans, and stretches now from mountains to the sea, but 
chiefly, perhaps, to the substantial yet graceful stone and brick 
business blocks that house the city's commercial life. In the busi- 
ness streets, as in the residence section, there is no lack of color; 
there is no monotonous somber tinge dulling the attractions of 
Los Angeles to the eye; it is vividly, happily artistic, and over it 
all the glad air of freshness; the very plate glass windows and the 
polished signs of brass reflect the city's pride even in details. 

There is no huddling of people in the residence parts of the 
city. The attractions that Nature gives to every foot of ground 
make irresistible the demand for space, evident in the fine homes 
with spacious lawns ever green, countless trees, graveled drive- 
ways, and embowered with the luxuriance of the flowers of sun- 
land. The street-car facilities make the spreading of the city con- 

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venient, 150 miles of electric lines reaching all parts, the hills, the 
Los Angeles River from which the water is largely stolen " at 
the canon's mouth " proving no barrier. 

In a public way Los Angeles is leadingly progressive. With- 
in the last few years all down-town electric, telephone and tele- 
graph lines have been placed in underground conduits, electric 
energy to the extent of 40,000 horse-power has been introduced 




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from the mountains, even as far as seventy miles away; suburbs 
have been annexed, over 250 miles of street have been paved and 
graded, forty-eight miles of sidewalk laid, and several new parks 
added to the list. The urban and suburban electric lines now 
under way, when finished, will give Los Angeles the finest elec- 
tric transit system known. The sewer system is complete, with 
150 miles of main and an outfall to the ocean. Inter-communi- 
cation has been bettered by the finishing of the Third street 
and Broadway tunnels. 

A glance at the map will show the advantages of Los Angeles 
as a railroad center. No other city in America has within easy 
access more delightful resorts, or of such variety. Mountains, 
valleys and ocean, summer and winter, vie with one another. 

Commercially the city depends upon its " back country," upon its 
trade with Arizona and New Mexico and its seaport at San Pedro. 
The inner harbor to-day is but a narrow step, but is crowded 
with shipping and crying aloud for enlargement. That this might 
be done, an outside harbor was necessary, and the Government is 
now building an immense breakwater. When completed a good 
and commodious harbor will be provided, and as the plan includes 
the extension of the present jetty and the dredging of the inner 
harbor to accommodate the rapid development of commerce here, 
ample and safe refuge will be provided for vessels of the largest 
size. It will embrace an area of one square mile, and in this can 
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New Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles. 

away, and the harbor will be of immense value to her. By the 
time it is completed the commerce of the port will have doubled. 
The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, with over iooo mem- 
bers, neglects no project of public importance. It occupies the 
new Chamber of Commerce Building, on the east side of Broad- 
way, between First and Second streets, and here maintains a 
striking display of the products of California South of Tehachapi. 
Visitors are cordially welcomed. The schools and school- 
houses of Los Angeles are abreast of the city, and that is saying 
much. The high school is worth a glance from anybody's camera 
and the State Normal School, set superbly high on a hill, is an 
institution that the State may well be proud of. The University 
of Southern California and numerous private schools, both secu- 
lar and religious, are factors in the city's educational life. Nor 
less so is the public library, in the City Hall, seemingly patronized 
by the entire population. The Court House, surrounded by 
North Broadway, Temple, Franklin and New High streets, is a 
magnificent structure, magnificently located. 

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The great advantages which Southern California possesses in 
being an all-year resort and a wonderful business community 
besides, make excellent accommodations at moderate charges a 
possibility which is fully realized in Los Angeles. The hotels, a 
part list of which appears in the back of the book, have all the 
comforts and luxuries of modern invention, and are accustomed 
to ministering to the most fastidious taste. The theaters are 
enabled by their excellent patronage to secure every first-class 
attraction that will leave the East. Los Angeles, too, is a city of 
churches, just as it is a city of homes, and on a Sunday morn you 
may hear the church bells ringing from hill top to the level, and 
see the city's avenues filled with a great concourse of people 
called to worship. 

Standing at some high vantage point and looking down upon 
this city smiling in the sunlight, and then with sweeping view fol- 
lowing the Sierra Madre mountains that rise into the lighter bine 
of the sky, around the undulating plain that sinks into the ocean 
fifteen miles away, one does not wonder that from all over the 
world so many intelligent people have in the past few years 
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" Climate is Fate." It determines the character of a people, the 
constitution and destiny of a race. It modifies civilization. It is 
too soon to determine the effect of the fascinating climate upon 
the people of Los Angeles. It takes time to mold the character of 
a people. If cold weather has been a wise step-mother of men, and 
the Anglo Saxon has moved onward to success because winter 
put iron in his blood, the Californian by adoption may lose his 
energy in the centuries to come, but there are no signs of energy 
giving place to lassitude, or of characteristic American " hustle " 
being supplanted by indulgent ease. Los Angeles is pushing, 
active, enterprising, and its seductive climate reaches out and 
draws perhaps 75,000 people yearly from their Eastern homes. 
Most of these return after a longer or shorter stay, but the charms 
of the climate are resistless, and the city grows as if it were a 
City of Destiny. Behind it and all about are rich farm lands, and 
when the new agriculture has taken fast hold of these, the city 
will have an abiding element of prosperitv. For soon or late the 
city rests back upon the farm, and gets solidity from the orderly, 
normal, cumulative prosperity which the farmer draws from the 
soil. 

It needs not the eye of a prophet to see here fifty years hence 
a vast commercial center which, with rapid transit lines reaching 
in every direction to coast, mountain and valley, will be the 
nucleus of a city, unique, homelike and beautiful — a city of five 
and ten-acre homes that shall stretch uninterruptedly from the 
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Los Angeles to Pasadena* 

THE suburbs of Los Angeles are not less pleasant than the 
city itself, and possess individual excellences that are 
ample argument for their existence. Chief of these is Pas- 
adena, far-famed crown of the valley. With uptown station at 
each end, the eight fast trains each way, of the Southern Pacific 
Company, take care of a large share of the travel between the 
two cities. The rest is looked after by two other steam roads 
and an electric railway. 

Starting from the business center of Los Angeles and cross- 
ing the river of that name, we soon leave the bluffs behind, after 
a glimpse of the manufacturing industries of the city, and in a 
few minutes reach Dolgeville, in a widening valley, seven miles 
east of the metropolis, and the center of a highly cultivated valley 
floor. 

DOLGEVILLE ^ e finest tower and block signal system in the 
West here protects the large converging traffic 
from the Inside Track, Pasadena and Monrovia branches. From 
Dolgeville to Los Angeles is a double track. Here is the largest 
vineyard of Southern California, a large steel tank and pipe 
factory, and the Convent of the Holy Name. A large winery has 
been transformed into a felt factory by the Alfred Dolge Manuf. 
Co. which will build a model village on similar lines to the famous 
one of Dolgeville in the East. The climatic conditions for the 
manufactures of wool and felt are said to be perfect here as no- 
where else in the country. An electric line connects the factory 
with the station. Pasadena passengers, not changing cars, pro- 
ceed onward through the upland to the city in the foothills. 

SOUTH South Pasadena is prosperous, proud of a fine 

PASADFNA P ai "k and increasing population. It is chiefly 
(Garfield Ave "> famous for its ostrich farms, where three 
^ '' hundred birds of the commercial feather flock 

together. Admission, 25 cents. 

Passengers leave the train in an artistic station in the heart of 
the city. Pasadena claims greatest excellence as a residence city. 
It typifies the ideals of the leisure class of refined people seeking 
PASADENA w i nter homes. Nine miles from Los Angeles, in 
the western end of the San Gabriel valley, it has 
the conveniences of the city, the attractions of the country, the 
resorts of the seaside, the glories of the mountains, within easy 
reach. Dame Nature spent a good deal of considerate thought 
on this town, gave it a perfect climate and an unexcelled loca- 
tion, and placed near at hand a fine water supply in mountain 
streams and subterranean reservoirs. Then J guess Dame Nature 
must have smilingly waited for man to come along and " dis- 
cover " Pasadena. Man came by and by, and since has lavished 
all the improvement that brains and money can command upon 
the ground floor of Nature. 

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The residences, set in miniature parks, exhaust adjectives of 
delight. Only the wonderful drives through blooming orchards, 
among delightful homes, to the lower levels of the wooded 
Arroyo Seco, up into the mountain canons or across the undu- 
lating valley, can tell the story. 

In its social life, Pasadena is almost ideal; churches, libraries, 
clubs and educational institutions occupy artistic homes of their 
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being remarkable for their beauty and proportions. The public 
library has a classic home of stone. The Throop Polytechnic 
Institute specializes in the department of manual training. The 
schools, public and private, employ some eighty-five instructors 
and are educating some 3500 young people. The social and liter- 
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of literature, of painting, and of all art — a city where great things 
should be accomplished. 

The suburbs to the south and east are encompassed with 
groves of citrus and deciduous fruits, and small fruits and vegeta- 
bles are also grown in abundance. Every year Pasadena ships 700 
or 800 carloads of fruits and vegetables, and says little about it. 

From Cape Town to Port Arthur the hotels of Pasadena 
are famous. Their excellent qualities, such as have made the 
Green, Raymond, Maryland and La Pintoresca so pleasant, fairly 
impel the tourist to the city. 

You may visit California and not see Pasadena — so may you 
tour Palestine and avoid Jerusalem. 

flOUNT ^ e most ±amous of mountain trips is that afforded 
LOWE kv the cable incline and electric railway up Mt. Lowe. 
From Southern Pacific Company's handsome depot 
electric cars run via Altadena to Rubio Canon, where begins 
the great cable incline. In three-fifths of a mile distance you are 
lifted, tilted chairs maintaining your equilibrium, a perpendicular 
distance of over a quarter of a mile. A monster cable operated 
by electricity does the work. A safety cable is a concession to 
nervous people, unnecessary except as a confidence restorer. 
Echo Mountain is a good place to see from; a sky, cloud and 
earth panorama lies before you. The Swift Observatory and a 
good hotel divide interest in your immediate surroundings. 
Upward again and over the Alpine division, with its 3000-foot 
gorge, across the five mysterious rivers of the rocks and the 




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circular bridge, you reach Alpine Tavern, 5000 feet above sea 
level, a favorite camping place, with a good hotel. You can see 
some earth from here, some ocean, and no end of sky. Mt. Lowe, 
1000 feet higher, is reached by bridle path. The whole is a trip 
of wonderful views, through canons and pine forests, climbing, 
ever climbing, until stray clouds wander beneath your feet, and 
you can easily imagine that you are treading the air hardly below 
the stars. 

Los Angeles to Monrovia and Duarte* 

Again leaving the Inside Track at Dolgeville, the way lies 
northward through a great vineyard, the name of which — Sunny 
Slope — happily describes it, and thence through the Baldwin 
ranch. It is a princely domain, this ranch, with its own railway 
station, its own hotel, a miniature forest, and all the improve- 
ments of a well-kept country estate. It is a favorite coaching 
ground, and the aisle-like drives often echo the mirth of a gleeful 
tally-ho party. 

MONROVIA ^ wo m ^ es beyond Arcadia is the picturesque foot- 
hill city of Monrovia, with its seven churches, fine 
tourist hotel, public library, high school and other evidences of 
urban life. Half city and half country, its hundreds of acres of 
green groves clinging to the rising slopes present a pretty pic- 
ture. Fine orange groves extend to and beyond Duarte, a neigh- 
boring colony of equal excellence a mile further east on thebranch. 

DUARTE Duarte has won fame chiefly by the excellence of its 
Thomson improved Navel and Valencia oranges, that 
have a habit of prize-winning. 

The budded fruit and the seedlings, the old orchards and 
those new from the nursery, the different soils, climates and 
locations, give interesting variety to orange groves. 

THE INSIDE TRACK. 
Los Angeles to San Bernardino, Riverside and Redlands* 

Another glance at the map and you will note that the Inside 
Track, the Southern Pacific Company's local line extending east- 
ward from Los Angeles to Redlands, Riverside and San Bernar- 
dino, and including Alhambra, San Gabriel, Covina, Lordsburg, 
Pomona, Chino, Ontario, Colton and other communities, is like 
a goodly branch laden with fruit. The line traverses first that 
fruit and flower garden, the San Gabriel valley, with branches to 
Pasadena and Duarte, then the beautiful valley of Pomona, 
thence through the broad sweep of San Bernardino valley, with 
its ramparts of high mountains, and then to the southward the 
vale of Riverside. Properly, these are not separate valleys, as 
the term is generally accepted, but a good deal of local pride 

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and some not very large rolling hills, that nowhere hide the 
high mountains to the north, are responsible. 

" Inside Track" has a special significance in the location of 
its stations, which are uptown everywhere — that is, in the busi- 
ness centers of the cities. An additional advantage is in the fact 
that the lines, being first constructed, pass through the best cul- 
tivated parts of the valleys. Generally in the geographical center 
of the valley, the passenger is just far enough from the moun- 
tains to view the highest ridges, no intervening foothills being 
able to hide them from such a vantage point. Thus their majesty 
is given its strongest effect. 

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A flying arrow bearing the news, " The easy way to see 
Southern California," is the emblem of the Inside Track. Red- 
lands at the tip, San Bernardino and Riverside at either barb, 
and Los Angeles at the feather, the directness of the line and 
the relative locations of the principal points are effectively 
shown, as well as the swift service. 

Use this arrow; you cannot miss the mark. 

In general the "Inside Track" includes some of the most 
attractive features of California, South of Tehachapi. Facing 
eastward, the snow-clad peaks of Mt. San Bernardino and Mt. 
San Gorgonio are seemingly your goal. Off to the left, after the 
green valley floor and its groups of hills, the foothills, up which 
venturesomely climb the orchards; then higher hills, and then the 
steep, abrupt ranges of the Sierra Madre and the San Bernardino 
mountains, with towering peaks and crests edged with pine for- 
ests. Cities, orchard-environed, are here and there; now we cross 
a lowland, with a broad wash and a narrow stream, or some 
broad bench, gradually ascending as we go eastward. To the 
right the mountains are nearer akin to hills and more scattered, 
some lie blue in the haze of the horizon; others isolated and 
lower are near at hand. Everywhere is a display of color. On a 
winter's day, from the car window one may gaze over an alfalfa 
field of green, a narrow strip of sand and greasewood, perhaps a 




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deciduous fruit orchard, higher the deeper color of an orange 
grove, then the gold and brown of a granite wall, and higher still 
the whiteness of the mountains snow-mantled; beyond and above 
a rift of light blue sky, and surmounting all some great mass of 
cumulus, white-capped cloud. It is a view often given a passen- 
ger on the Inside Track, to whom width of valley and height of 
mountain wall display their greatest charms. 

Excursion tickets are on sale at the principal Southern Pacific 
Company offices, covering a trip over the Inside Track and per- 
mitting stop-overs everywhere, at a rate of $4.10. With this 
ticket you should secure a local folder; then you are equipped 
for travel among the orange groves of the interior. 
ALHAMRRA Tracing the Inside Track by communities, after 
leaving Dolgeville we pass Alhambra, an incorpo- 
rated city of a thousand inhabitants, a place of pleasant homes, 
beautiful drives and old groves that are classic. It is 
destined to be a great residence section. Beyond is San Gabriel, 
SAN an °ld Spanish settlement of great interest, for 

GABRIEL h ere at the station's very door is one of the best 
preserved of the old missions, with a famous chime of 
bells. Historically the missions of Southern California are treated 
on a later page, and among them San Gabriel is entitled to prom- 
inence. Time has treated it kindly. At the eastern end is an 
arch containing the chime of six bells, still calling devotees to 
service. Its towers saw no civilized dwelling place at their build- 
ing, and the time-scarred wall and well-worn entrance speak of 
ancient years. The landmark of an earlier civilization with mis- 
sion most peaceful, San Gabriel is worth a lingering inspection. 
San Gabriel has one of the largest grapevines in the world and the 
oldest orange groves in Southern California, as well as two 
wineries. St. John's Episcopal School for young men is located 
here and has a promising future. 
nONTE After San Gabriel are passed Rosemead, Savanna and 

then Monte, where the Baptists founded their first 
Southern California church. It is in the " moist lands ", has three 
creameries, and ships to an eager market large quantities of caul- 
iflower and other vegetables. From Bassett are two routes to 
Pomona, the older via Puente, Lemon and Spadra, through a 
grain, hay and oil country, and the newer to the northward 
through a rich horticultural district. The way to the north leads 
through the gardens of Vineland and Irwindale to Covina, 24 
miles from Los Angeles. 
COVINA C° v i na ^ s the largest berry district in Southern 

California, but it is great not alone in small things. 
In orange' shipments it is among the three or four leading 
points in the State, and modestly says little, either of that or 
of its large returns from deciduous fruits and agriculture. There 
is a growing suspicion that the good people of Covina are 
quietly getting rich without taking the outside world into their 
business confidence. It is acquiring metropolitan airs, and is 

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destined to be one of the largest of the interior Southern Cal- 
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SAN DIMAS Four m ^ es farther east is San Dimas, an important 
citrus fruit-shipping point. It possesses scenic ad- 
vantages, including a romantic waterfall. On the material side 
prosperity is shown in two large orange packing houses; and one 
of the largest lemon packing houses in California. It has two 
churches, library, bank, machine shop and general stores. It is 
noted for large pumping plants, and the largest exclusive citrus 
nurseries in the world. 

LORDSBURG Lordsburg is a rapidly increasing Dunkard 
settlement with a new broom air, neatness and 
thrift being evident everywhere. Sheer force of great advantages 
lias added largely to its population in the last few years. A 
Dunkard college is maintained. These generous and honorable 
people are building an ideal colony. But the Gentile is not absent; 
his eager eye has noted Lordsburg's prosperity. The orchards of 
citrus and deciduous fruits and of walnuts are wonderfully pro- 
ductive — partly due, no doubt, to wonderful care. The foothill 
section of this town is said to be as near the frostless belt as can 
be found. Large packing houses will be observed here as well as 
at Covina and San Dimas. 

The road leads through the midst of orange orchards that in 
the spring lend even to the flying train their fragrance. 

POMONA Po m ona is at the crossing of the ways and is the 

business center of Pomona Valley. From the west 

the main line and the Covina route via San Dimas and Lordsburg 

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Chino, rejoining the more direct line at Ontario. Pomona has 
upwards of twenty-five square miles of orchards and small fruits. 
These orchards encompass the artistic homes of an intelligent and 
prosperous people. There are 7000 people there now and the num- 
ber will be doubled in ten years. The city has fifteen churches, 
with 3000 members, ten schools, and a college that is a credit to 
the Coast. It also has a $15,000 Carnegie library with 8000 vol- 
umes. The moral atmosphere is just as splendid as the life-giving 
air that makes the city a health resort. Of course Pomona has 
such adjuncts of city civilization as electric light, paved streets, 
good hotels, a splendid water supply (being constantly augmented), 
fme business blocks and a public library that would serve as a 
good excuse for young Pomonans growing up bespectacled like 
their Boston cousins. The climate, though, insures a clear eye. 

The horticultural importance of the city is attested by a dozen 
or more large packing houses, dealers in oranges, olives, apricots, 
peaches, etc., for which this goddess-favored city is famous. A 
cannery employs hundreds of people in the busy season. During 
the season of 1903-1904 the orange crop was worth over a 
million dollars, and it was not the only item that figured in the 
bank accounts. Many fine residences have been and are being 
built, a new domestic water system has been completed and the 
city's importance as a railroad center established in the last few 
years. 



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Euclid Avenue, Ontario. 



ONTARIO ^ lx m ^ es east of Pomona is Ontario, known of old as 
the Model Colony. Its fruit orchards, principally of 
orange, lemon and olive, for a distance of seven miles to the foot- 
hills, present a forest of green. Through them passes the beauti- 
ful boulevard, Euclid Avenue, though what that gentleman did 
to entitle him to so graceful a tribute has puzzled many a patient 
toiler at the Thirteen Fatal Books. Two hundred feet wide, the 
avenue cheerfully accommodates sideiwalks, a double driveway, 
several rows of splendid shade trees, and an electric railway. 

Over seven of the nine miles of the avenue runs this scenic 
railway, and a five-cent fare will lift you from the 980 feet eleva- 
tion at the Southern Pacific station to the half-mile elevation at 
the head of the avenue. It is a line of great interest, and famous 
for the gravity car of older days, when the patient mules that had 
plodded up the long incline found their reward while, with ears 
laid back, and mouths wide open, they drank in the scenery from 
a back platform, as passengers, on the down grade. 

Ontario is on the valley divide, and is an ideal fruit country. 
Two thousand acres of deciduous fruits in Blackburn's addition, 
south and east of town, have been added to the very large hold- 
ings to the north. The city, in its prosperity, smiles at new, 
big packing-houses, new churches, new business blocks, new 
school buildings, including the Ontario High School (for you 
must know that every Southern California town is a center of 
education), and new houses too numerous for the local mathema- 
tician. The city shipped 1500 carloads of fruit during the past 
season, and there is no wonder at it having three banks. It is 
almost unnecessary to mention the electric lights, sewer system, 

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Beet Sugar Factory, Chino. 

excellent schools, ten church organizations, and the other city 
signs. Within sight of the passing train is the new and attractive 
brick building of the Ontario Country Club. The mountains to 
the north of Pomona and Ontario, culminating in Mount San 
Antonio, familiarly known as Old Baldy, are possessed of many 
charming summer retreats, both in canons and in higher eleva- 
tions. Excellent hunting and fishing may be had in the untrod- 
den ways that lie beyond the field of the ordinary pleasure seeker. 
Five miles south of Ontario, on the southern side of the loop 
line, between Ontario and Pomona, is Chino. 

CHINO Chino is very different from its neighbors, and yet 
equally productive in its way, and a sweet way it has. 
For many years the Chino Rancho was one of the most produc- 
tive sections of California in the " damp belt," and its live-stock 
products were favorably known throughout the country. A few 
years ago it became the site of the pioneer experiment in sugar- 
beet raising in Southern California and experiments so success- 
ful that the beet-sugar industry now overtops all others in 
Chino. In the busy summer season iooo people are in the field 
and the factory, whence, in a season, are shipped several hun- 
dred carloads of sugar. A creamery and cheese-making plant 
have recently been added to the list of industries. 

CUCAriONQA " ^^ e pl ace °^ many springs," and an early 
settlement and noted for its fruits, and for being 
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Rochester and Etiwanda are in the raisin district, and vast 
vineyards stretch away to the San Bernardino mountains. 

Declez winery and stone quarries, and Sansevain (good quail 
country hereabouts) are passed, and then Bloomington. 

BLOOMINGTON Bloomington is of growing importance as a 
fruit center, raising as it does fine oranges and 
lemons and making excellent olive oil. The acreage of olives and 
citrus fruit is constantly increasing. 

COLTON Colton, fifty-eight miles from Los Angeles, is a rail- 
road center of importance. Here the Southern 
Pacific Company's line between Riverside and San Bernardino, 
recently the subject of great improvements and for which more 
are projected, crosses the main line of the Inside Track. Colton, 
besides being headquarters for many railroad men, has other 
adjuncts of prosperity. A roller flour mill of 250 barrels daily 
capacity, and an up-to-date planing mill have lately been built 
here. Granite and marble quarries, and perhaps most important 
of all, cement works of large capacity at Slover mountain, employ 
many men. The Colton terrace oranges are at the top in market 
quotations. A new hotel is projected and an electric railway has 
been built with more lines contemplated. 

LOflA LINDA Here is one of Southern California's greatest 
sanatoriums. The beautiful main building with 
its turrets, balconies and porches, is set upon a commanding 
mound that ends in the mountain wall to its back. On either side 
the land slopes gently down to the San Bernardino Valley. To 
the northward to one of the lovely scenes of Southern California. 
In the foreground the old orange groves of the mission; beyond 
the Santa Ana River and farther yet the city of San Bernardino 
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artistically outlined, majestic mountain wall, the San Bernardino 
Range. To the left, Colton town glistens in the sunlight; to the 
right Redlands nestles greein against the upland. Here, guarded 
against extremes of temperature by one of the best of locations 
climatically, surrounded by an intermediate environment of fine 
orange groves showing never a touch of frost, given every atten- 
tion that the associated work of the best Southern California 
physicians can offer, the invalid has every reason to hope for 
relief and eventual recovery. 

REDLANDS Almost at the eastern end of the Inside Track 
under the brow of Mt. San Bernardino, lies Red- 
lands, fifteen years ago a barren red hillside; to-day a city of 
8500 people, with 12,000 acres of citrus and 2000 acres of decid- 
uous fruits, and nurseries and land and water making orchards 
every minute. 

Along the foot of the mountains in an elevated yet protected 
position, it is the chosen winter home of many wealthy Eastern 
people. It is a city of magnificent views. Toward the west, facing 
it, is the lovely San Bernardino Valley; at its back are the two 
highest peaks in Southern California, Mt. San Bernardino and San 
Gorgonio ; to the right the fertile foothills and mesas of Highlands 
and the intermediate country, extending across to the mountains 
to the north. To the left the city site slopes upward, culminating 
in a canon crest, where one may stand and look down as from 
the upper edge of a giant wall into deep San Gorgonio pass, a 
train perhaps winding through the defile; or turn to the north 
and view the glory of Redlands, the exquisite. 

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Canon Crest is a park, better known as Smiley Heights, and 
renowned the world over for its beauty. It beggars description. 
There is little use in trying to tell of two hundred acres of flower 
garden with a thousand varieties of trees and shrubs besides. 
The views, the wonderful drives, the lakes — you don't stop to 
count the flowers; it's enough to know that in trees there are 
forty varieties of eucalyptus, twenty of acacias, and fifteen of 
palms, and the tree catalogue hardly opened. A horned toad 
that a decade ago called this desert his home, would feel badly 
lost now. As for you, it is enough that you are there. 

Another characteristic feature of Redlands is the A. K. Smiley 
Public Library — built in the old mission style and set in a fine 
park — containing about 9000 volumes. It is the generous gift 
of Mr. A. K. Smiley to the city, and its material worth alone is 
$40,000. 

Redlands has magnificent homes, excellent hotels and boule- 
vards that are an irresistible invitation to riding, bicycling and 
coaching. 

The city does not depend upon its wealthy eastern relations 
for support. The fruit crop of 1903-04 yielded about 3,000 cars in 
revenue, and the orchards are young yet. 

The city is electric lighted, paved with asphalt, and in the 
business section handsomely built with brick and stone, no wood 

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being allowed. An electric line is in operation between Casa 
Loma Hotel, Smiley Heights and the Country Club. The 
chief water supply is the great Bear Valley reservoir up in the 
San Bernardino mountains, and new sources of supply are being 
constantly developed. The building improvements for the past 
three years amount to $3,000,000. New homes in orchard settings 
are springing up everywhere. 

There is an attractive Country Club on the foothills overlooking 
the city, where all the usual outdoor amusements can be found. 
During the past year a University Club Building has been erected ; 
the Contemporary Club fa women's organization) is now con- 
structing a building adjoining the Smiley Library, and a handsome 
new Opera House has just been completed. These features, and 
many others, add very much to the enjoyments of visitors at 
Redlands. 

It is a striking metamorphosis accomplished by irrigation that 
a city worth at least sixteen million dollars, with all modern im- 
provements, has replaced a lonely hillside where fifteen years ago 
the coyote and the jack-rabbit could find no green to sport upon. 

From Redlands many points of interest in the mountains are 
reached, by stage, horseback or the philosophical burro, who has 
a soul above mountain heights and to whom no trail is too nar- 
row, no trodden way too precipitous — if he have but time. The 
ascent of snow-covered Mt. San Bernardino and its near neigh- 
bor, Mt. San Gorgonio (in the vernacular " Grayback " because 
of its snowy ridge) may be made with either San Bernardino or 
Redlands as starting-point, an interesting summer trip. 

Bear Valley has a good hotel and many other resorts have 
excellent, homelike accommodations. Fredalba Park is a crea- 




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tion of Smiley Brothers, to whom the world owes Canon Crest 
Park, and there are many artistic summer homes up among the 
pines. Seven Oaks, Squirrel Inn, Bluff Lake and Oak Glen are 
attractive places in the San Bernardino Mountains. In the winter 
the higher mountain ridges are deeply snow-covered and are 
deserted save by a few lumbermen, ranchers and reservoir men ; 
but in the summer, camps are everywhere, the delightful tempera- 
ture, the bracing atmosphere that keeps one dancing, the pine 
forests and the cold springs adding to the attractions of the 
mountain canons and the little valleys that are set in among the 
tops of towering walls, " sky-high." 

Every year the dwellers by the sea are appreciating more and 
more the value of a change of climate, such as is secured by a 
vacation excursion to the mountains; even as the inland inhabi- 
tants find the beneficial variation needed by a visit to the sea- 
shore. 

CRAFTON From Redlands the Inside Track climbs steadily past 
Eastberne and its ice factory to Crafton, a famous 
retreat half in the canon's embrace and a favorite place for pic- 
nickers. It is not only famous as a resort, but is also the site of 
the great power plants of the Edison Electric Power Company 
that make the city Los Angeles (and other cities, too) hum — 
and it's almost eighty miles away. It is noted, too, for its oranges 
and cherries. 

Returning and facing for the first time to the west, the path 
is retrodden to Motor Junction, only three miles from Redlands, 
the Southern Pacific Company's motor affording rapid transit to 
the county seat, San Bernardino, through Old Mission. 

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Following the main avenue, the line passes in Old Mission 
some of the oldest and best orange groves in Southern California. 
A rose hedge a half-mile long catches the eye with its stretch of 
beauty. The Santa Ana is again crossed, and then upward the 
road leads to San Bernardino. 

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BERNARDINO m il es east °f Los Angeles, on the broad slope 
between the mountains of the same name and 
the Santa Ana River, in the heart of the valley, lies San Bernar- 
dino, county seat of the county of that name, reached from Col- 
ton via the Riverside branch and from Redlands via the motor 
line. It is now becoming famous as the " City of Mineral 
Springs." It is a well-built city of broad streets, well paved with 
business blocks that would be a credit to a metropolis and has a 
population of 12,000. It is the commercial and political center of 
the valley, and largely of the mining districts in and beyond the 
mountains to the north and east. It is the fountain city of 
Southern California, and through hundreds of artesian wells 
draws a pure water supply from caverns far below. Two wells 
recently struck are yielding unprecedented volumes of water, a 
fortune to their owners and a boon to many a thirsty acre. San 
Bernardino is the business center of the large sawmill industry in 
the mountains, and the location of large railroad machine and car 
shops employing a thousand men. It has a creamery, flour mill, 
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Founded by a rich fruit country. A $300,000 Court House, a $60,- 
000 Hall of Records and a $20,000 Carnegie library are among the 
public buildings. On the social side, the hospitable Arrowhead 
Club and many kindred organizations help make life pleasant. 
An athletic park, and a city pavilion, with a seating capacity of 
2500, are among the notable public features. The usual public 
utilities, such as electric lights, gas, waterworks, an excellent 
public library, good hotels, are other items in its public life. 
An electric street railway covers the principal streets and extends 
to Redlands, Highlands, Colton, Urbita, and is projected to reach 
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From San Bernardino the well-known Harlem Hot Springs 
are reached by the Highland Railroad, occupying the same sta- 
tion as the lines of the Southern Pacific Company. This resort, 
with its pavilion and mud and plunge baths of hot mineral water, 
is acquiring fame as a health restorer, and for several years has 
been the favorite picnic place of two counties. Midway Springs, 
one mile south of the city, with fine hot springs, plunge and 
tub baths, is a popular resort. 

Arrowhead Springs, a health resort of the Indians, and whose 
boiling waters are also disastrous to the ills that the white man is 
heir to, are six miles north of the city, on the mountain side, a 
great arrowhead blazoned on the face of the mountain, to be seen 
plainly for fifteen miles, pointing directly to the source of the 
baby geysers. San Bernardino is also the gateway to a charming 
string of mountain resorts, including Squirrel Inn, Little Bear 
Valley, Bear Valley, Fredalba Park, Seven Oaks, etc. 

In San Bernardino, as elsewhere, the Southern Pacific Com- 
pany has its station near neighbor to the liveliest business section, 

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and is making many improvements, among which is the construc- 
tion of a fine freight and passenger depot. 

A branch line runs from San Bernardino south to Riverside, a 
distance of twelve miles, crossing the main line at Colton. 
Below Colton the line crosses the Santa Ana River, on a long 
bridge, and then close to the foothills, along great irrigating 
canals, passes Highgrove, formerly known as East Riverside, 
terminating at Riverside. 



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Highgrove is a pretty orange colony with a 
promising business center. Thence to Riverside 
is almost a continuous orange grove, for we are now in the 
famous Riverside valley, the greatest orange growing section 
in the world. 

RIVERSIDE ^ e c * ty °^ W vef side, political and business center 
"^ of Riverside county, has no narrowing city walls, 

but is bounded only by the hills, the municipal limits confining 
fifty-six square miles, and every mile productive. This season's 
orange and lemon crop is about 4000 carloads. Next season's 
output will be 6000 carloads — a conservative guess. It is not to 
be wondered at that the bank deposits, in this citv of 8000 people, 
largely exceed $1,000,000, and that the actual property value is 
estimated to be over $18,000,000. About thirty-five square miles 
of Riverside are under irrigation, the Riverside Water Company, 
the Riverside Trust Company, and others, furnishing the water 
secured from mountain streams, and largely from artesian wells, 
in the San Bernardino valley. 

The business section of Riverside is in keeping with its hand- 
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power to sell. The opera house is one of the finest in the State, 
the hotels are of a high standard, and many of its business blocks 
are of metropolitan appearance. The Y. M. C. A. possesses a hand- 
some home. Riverside schools are wisely managed and pro- 
gressive, with the artistic homes that are a distinctive feature of 
California educational facilities. There are many churches, and 
no saloons. The streets are paved, and the city is intersected 
with fine boulevards. A magnificent High School building 
(Mission Style) is now finished. The new Government School 
for the Indians is under way. A new court house has recently 
been built at a cost of $100,000 — and every cent paid. 

The New Glenwood is one of the most attractive hotels in any 
country. It is by no means the largest or the most costly, but it 
is the most unique and the most homelike. It is luxurious, but 
the luxury is subdued and unobtrusive. It suits you and ministers 
to you but you do not notice it. The building is after the Mission 
style. There are no door knobs, but instead the old fashioned 
iron latch. Even the electric lights shine from bell-shaped fixtures 
and Mission bells hang from numerous arches, and guests are 
welcomed and meals announced by their musical chiming. Every- 
where the designers have dared to be original, and this constitutes 
half the charm of this magnificent structure. Over the old adobe, 
saved as a portion of the New Glenwood, are seen the red moss- 



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Magnolia Avenge, Riverside. 

grown and discolored old tiles from the Pala Mission near 
Temecula — tiles made by Indians under the direction of the 
Franciscan missionary, Father Peyri, about the time we were 
getting rested from the War of the Revolution. We have no room 
for adequate description. No description can quite set out the 
subtle charm of this hotel, the conception of Mr. Frank A. Miller 
and his wife, the result of years of experience, as well of con- 
summate skill and taste. It adds much to the attractiveness of 
Riverside as a place for tourists, and is much thought of and 
talked about by Eastern visitors and foreigners. The hotel world 
has no more genial and accommodating host than Mr. Miller. 

Greatest of all the avenues is Magnolia Avenue, a seven-mile 
stretch of lovely double roadway, jeweled with the slender euca- 
lyptus, the spreading palm, the drooping pepper, and the grace- 
ful magnolia, set off with a bewildering profusion of flowers; 
through fragrant orange groves, white with blossom, or mayhap 
golden with fruit. To the right and left are the great orange 
groves, and half hidden may be seen some ideal home, foliage 
encompassed. Not ostentation, but art; not arrogance, but intel- 
ligence; not bitter competition, but discerning cooperation; you 
can see Truth well written along this wonderful way of homes. 
An electric car line has just been completed down the avenue, 
starting passengers on their trip from the Southern Pacific 
station. At night, when the avenue is illuminated by electricity, 
and, seemingly, the stars twinkle in the tree-tops, drifting down 
the avenue means indeed a happy, midsummer's night dream. 



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Carnegie Library, Riverside. 

The sister avenue, Victoria, is hardly less interesting. The 
Victoria Club has just erected a fine structure at a cost of $27,000. 
The club is composed of the business men of the city, and the 
new building is considered one of the best club houses in South- 
ern California. It has fine golf links, tennis courts, etc. 

The Southern Pacific Company's depot in Riverside, within 
hallooing distance of the busiest business corner, is not excelled 
anywhere as a model station and equaled perhaps only by the 
Company's stations at Redlands and Pasadena. 

Returning from Riverside, the homeward trip is made via the 
route described, taking the opposite side of the loop from 
Ontario west. The other side of the car will unveil new wonders 
to the eye. 



Los Angeles to Santa Ana, Whittier, Tustin, and Los 

Alamitos* 

South of Los Angeles in the county of that name, and the 
neighboring county of Orange, is a richly productive section that 
raises pretty nearly everything under the sun except tornadoes, 
floods, snow storms, sun strokes and torrid nights, which are not 
indigenous to California, and which no weather prophet has been 
able successfully to import. 

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DOWNEY Leaving the Arcade Depot, the great city station 
of the Southern Pacific Company, reached from all 
parts of the city by electric lines, the trip is southward through 
the hog and hominy land, past Florence and Vinvale to Downey, 
an enterprising town surrounded by an agricultural section that 
would make any farmer's heart glad. Potatoes, walnuts, vegeta- 
bles, small fruits, corn, etc., are profitable crops. A first-class 
hotel, with reasonable rates, under good management, is now 
found here. 

From Studebaker, fifteen miles from Los Angeles, a branch 
extends to Whittier through a country that is proving particu- 
larly well adapted to the cultivation of fruits and walnuts. 
WHITTIER ^^ e Q ua ^ er colony of Southern California, Whit- 
tier, is, like Redlands, an example of marvelous 
growth. Ten years ago simply a vast barley field, now it is tree- 
clothed and hundreds of homes make this an ideal foothill city. 
The Whittier college of the Society of Friends, is a very success- 
ful institution. If one would find a place more beautiful than 
this he must search far. Of interest is the state reformatory insti- 
tution, where the wayward youth are guided back into the proper 
path. Whittier possesses city improvements and wealth; every 
year it ships several hundred carloads of fruits, vegetables and 
walnuts. Its cannery is one of the largest in the State. 

The walnut fields of Whittier are multiplying. There are few 




State Reform School, Whittier. 
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English Walnut Grove, Whittler. 

sights upon a farm more pleasing than rows of wide-spreading 
English walnuts. The industry is easily managed and profitable. 
NORWALK Returning to the Santa Ana line we pass the thriv- 
ing village of Norwalk. The country around here 
is rich agriculturally, and rural free delivery carries the mail to 
all the country side. 

BUENA PARK Buena P al "k is decidedly in the cow country. It 
has a condensed milk manufactory that expends 
$15,000 per month, using thousands of gallons daily. A beautiful 
avenue is one of its greatest attractions. 

ANAHEIM Anaheim is forty-seven years old, but has the per- 
ennial youth of every Southern California colony. 
A colony of Germans, possessing good judgment, chose it in 
1857 as a good place to live — and that good judgment has never 
been disputed. Few cities are more prosperous and its 3000 peo- 
ple not only possess, but own, a large area of cultivated country, 
orange groves, vineyards, walnuts and small fruits. The city has 
fine avenues, electric lights, street cars, nine churches, high school, 
fine graded schools, and an excellent water system. There are 
several points of historic interest in the neighborhood. 
LOS ^ os Alamitos is mne miles from Anaheim, on a 

ALAniTOS branch line recently built. A sheep range a few 
years since, it is now the site of a large beet 
sugar factory with a capacity of 700 tons of beets per day. It has 
a school-house, of course, a church, two hotels and several stores. 

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It is the railroad station for Anaheim Landing and Bolsa-Chico 
Hay, one of the new seaside resorts. 



ORANGE 



Orange has fine avenues, an excellent public library, 



and a miniature park in a plaza, but its chief distinc- 
tion is its ideal homes and their lovely surroundings. Three 
miles from Santa Ana, its sources of commercial prosperity are 
those of its neighbor. 

SANTA Santa Ana is thirty-four miles from Los Angeles, and 
ANA is the metropolis, commercial and political, of Orange 

county. It is a modern city with fine business build- 
ings, paved streets, electric lights, four banks and an opera house 
that would be a credit to any place on the Coast. Its street- 
car system connects with Orange, and is to be extended 
throughout the valley. Prosperity is very evident in Santa 
Ana, and that is not to be wondered at, for the surrounding 
county of Orange is one of the richest sections of California, with 
a wonderful variety of profitable products. The great in- 
dustry hereabouts is walnut growing, and few things are 
handsomer than a walnut ranch, or more profitable. It is a 
region also of general farming. That explains the four 
banks. A great many new houses are being built, several new 
business blocks have just been completed, and there is every pros- 
pect that the year 1904 will be one of unexampled growth in both 
city and county. A new canning establishment, that is capable of 
turning out 50,000 cases of Orange county products every day is 
now in operation. A fine new court house has just been fin- 
ished. Santa Ana has a public park worth considerable pride, 




Orange Grove In Orange County. 



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Newport Beach. 

a good public library, fine schools, an enterprising chamber oi 
commerce, an Ebell society for the ladies, and a Sunset club 
for the gentlemen. The northern part of the city is noted for 
its beautiful homes. The county has been generously favored 
by Mr. Irvine in its picturesque park in Santiago canon. Near 
by is the fifty-acre tract of the Santa Ana Golf Club, also a gift 
of the same gentleman. The city is the junction of the Santa 
Ana and Newport branch with the main line. 

NEWPORT Newport is a famous place for those who love the 
ocean for its own sake and not because of beach, 
brass bands or merry-go-rounds. The man with the broad 
brimmed hat and the long fishing pole, with a family who like to 
be summering along a delightful beach, comes here.^ It has a 
sand peninsula with quiet water on one side and tumbling break- 
ers on the other, a delightful bit of headland scenery, and a bay 
perfect for bathing and boating. Its wharf and hotels are all 
attractive. A branch of the railroad extends to Smeltzer and the 
famous peat lands, where are grown the hundreds of carloads of 
celery that find their way to the eastern market every year. # Very 
productive are these peat lands, and grow almost anything in 
abundance save large timber that have " too heavy a step." 
Every tourist should make a visit to this interesting section, 
where he can produce an earthquake " all by himself." The trip 
from Newport to Smeltzer is one of much scenic beauty. 

TII<VTIN Tustin is the center of one of the older fruit districts 
u ^ of the South, and has many magnificent groves. The 

town is the center of a community well known for its wealth and 
refinement. Near by is the famous San Joaquin ranch of a hun- 
dred thousand undivided acres that extends from the mountains 
to the sea. There are good roads in all this country, a peculiar 
rock formation known as " Tustin cement " being responsible 
for many of them. 

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The Watering Places of Southern California* 

No country in the world is possessed of more pleasing seaside 
resorts than California, South of Tehachapi. South of the thirty- 
fifth parallel of latitude, its semi-tropic sea permits of surf-bath- 
ing the year round; few storms disturb the placid waters of this 
part of the Pacific, hemmed in by a chain of islands that them- 
selves possess large possibilities as pleasure places. The coast, 
picturesque, abrupt and frowning for many miles of the length, 
has, nevertheless, beaches that for beauty and magnitude are not 
excelled anywhere. The fame of Santa Barbara is world-wide; 
and Santa Monica, Long Beach, Terminal Island, Santa Catalina 
Island, Newport, and other resorts, all easy of access from Los 
Angeles, will before long have more than one country dancing 
attendance upon their surf lines in the summer days. 

The improvements of these resorts are notable: fine hotels, 
boarding nouses, hundreds of furnished cottages and tents, pleas- 
ure wharves, pavilions, band stands, modern bath-houses and 
good restaurants are among the permanent attractions; usually 
the attractions are not confined to the beach, a thriving city with 
all modern conveniences and a surrounding well-settled country 
with pleasant drives and a background of mountains, are added. 

The Southern Pacific Company maintains quick and inexpen- 
sive service of numerous trains between all these points and Los 
Angeles, where close connections are made for the interior. 

To Long Beach, Terminal Island and San Pedro* 

From Los Angeles a branch of the Southern Pacific Company 
extends southerly through Compton — famous for its output of 
two tons of butter and cheese daily, its thousand cars of beets 
COMPTON annua Hy; an d f° r its nve hundred flowing wells, 
fine educational facilities, and the prosperity of its 
people. From Compton the line extends down to the sea, forking 
at Thenard, one line extending to Long Beach and the other to 
vSan Pedro and Terminal Island. 

LONG BEACH There was never anyone dissatisfied with Long 
Beach. It is a summer resort just plenty good 
enough, and it's a place to live the year round with great comfort. 
There is no use in trying to catalogue its attractions. There is a 
most magnificent stretch of smooth sand for the waves to tumble 
over. You can gather shells, drive about a country that is one 
vast park, go fishing, boating or yachting, try a surf swim or the 
plunge baths built over the ocean, or idle the hours away on the 
beach. Long Beach is the summer meeting place of the Chautau- 
quans. It is the summer home, too, of thousands of Californians 
who wish to enjoy an outing amid surroundings moral, educa- 
tional and artistic. The city possesses electric lights, a fine 
pavilion, a city hall, handsome parks, and many new brick busi- 

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ness blocks. There will be other people there besides you this 
summer; over fifteen hundred cottages have been built during 
the past three seasons. It has a new electric road building. 



SAN PEDRO 



From Thenard the other branch extends to San 



Pedro, now a place of great activity. The 
government is expending millions of dollars in creating here 
a free harbor. This means a great breakwater 800 feet long and 
14 feet above water at low tide, with a base 190 feet wide and 
20 feet across the top. As the water is about 50 feet deep, this 
engineering work sets up a wall 64 feet high, against which the 
waves will break. The inner harbor will be dredged, and have an 
area of about 1,200 acres, and a depth of 25 feet. The rapid 
development of commerce here makes this work necessary. San 
Pedro is feeling the results of this improvement of the port, and 
is growing. Doubtless the Government will establish a post here 
at an early day, and the little cove where Dana's ship anchored 
to take on hides will have become a port of entry, and a shipping 
point of great importance. More than 362,000,000 feet of lumber 
were handled here last year. When completed the harbor will, 
with Port Los Angeles, give California, South of Tehachapi, first- 
class open doors to the commerce of the world. San Pedro is 
also assuming importance as a commercial center, being the dis- 
tributing point for Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico 




Bath House at Long Beach. 
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Inner Harbor, San Pedro. 



and Mexico, for lumber of all kinds. It has taken its place among 
the prosperous ports of the Pacific Coast. Oysters, sardines and 
lobsters are successful aquatic crops that make the epicure cast a 
longing eye at the bay. Pt. Fermin lighthouse is worthy of a visit. 



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Point Firmin Light House, San Pedro, 

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TERniNAl Terminal Island, reached by the excellent ferry 

ISLAND service of the Southern Pacific Company from San 
Pedro, and enjoying the same rates from Los An- 
geles and the interior as do Santa Monica, San Pedro, and Long 
Beach, though a comparatively new resort, is widely popular, 
with its quiet waters, good bathing, boating, and fishing. It has 
a beautiful promenade and a fine pleasure wharf. 
WILMINGTON Near neighbor to San Pedro on Wilmington 
Bay, it is of historical interest. It is the center 
of a great grain country, and its people, though disinclined to 
brass bands in business affairs, are prosperous. 

qawta From San Pedro, steamers plow the Pacific (in 

C^TAL IMA ^ ie summer daily or twice a day) on a twenty- 
three-mile trip to Santa Catalina Island, the great 
island resort of the Pacific Coast, and but two and three-quarter 
hours from Los Angeles. 

The fame of the island runs now where man can read. Avalon 
Bay and the Isthmus are ideal resorts. The twenty-two miles of 
island, mountain, cliff, valley, forest, peninsula, possess a mag- 
nificent scenic stage road, wonderful views, fine goat and quail 
hunting, winding trails, deep gorges, and water-falls among the 
attractions of the interior; yet perhaps the larger number of 
visitors find most enjoyment in or upon the water. It is a sum- 
mer isle, with the surf beating on the rocky cliffs of the south 
and west coasts, and with the ocean sleeping in glassy stillness 
along the sandy and pebbly beaches to the north and east. 

In the bay of Avalon, children paddle about unattended in 
boats that they cannot upset. Indeed, everybody goes rowing 
and bathing here. There is no surf and no wind, and so clear is 
the water that all the wonderful vegetable and animal life on the 
bottom of the ocean may be seen through the bottom of a glass- 
bottomed boat, as if the water were of crystal. Seals (sea-lions\ 
unmolested, clamber on the rocks. It is a wonderful fishing- 
ground, and on a summer morning a fleet of rowboats and naph- 
tha launches may be seen outward bound in search of the giant 
sea bass (reaching a weight of 500 pounds), the leaping tuna 
(gamiest of all fish), the frolicsome and plentiful yellowtail, the 
albicore, the barracuda, that philosopher's fish, the grouper, the 
white and rock bass, the halibut, and other denizens of the salty 
deep. An expert with the rifle hunts the flying-fish. 

In the height of the summer season, there are often 5000 or 
6000 people on Catalina Island. There are a number of good 
hotels, but the tent villages, with their macadamized streets, and 
with rows of shade trees, are very attractive, and here the crowd 
lives. The furnished tents are rented very cheaply, and, at the 
delicacy stores, dinners hot from the range, niay be purchased 
less expensively than an indulgence in home cooking. Illumina- 
tions, nightly concerts in a fine pavilion, followed by dancing, a 
skating rink, and the unconventional social life that a respectable 
company makes possible, make life very pleasant upon the Island. 

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Soldiers' Home, Santa Monica. 



Los Angeles to Soldiers' Home, Santa Monica, and Port 

Los Angeles* 

Still another line of the Southern Pacific Company extends 
westward from Los Angeles to Santa Monica, a distance of nine- 
teen miles, and thence, along the coast, to the terminus of the 
great Port Los Angeles wharf, three miles farther. 



UNIVERSITY 



University station is in one of the finest resi- 
dence sections of Los Angeles, and, as its name 

indicates, is the home of the University of Southern California. 

Many fine homes are being built here. 



SOLDIERS' 
HO/VIE 



A mile from Home Junction, on a loop line, and 
sixteen miles from Los Angeles, is the home that 
a government that would nourish the wonted fire 
of patriotism, maintains for its disabled volunteer soldiers. Three 
thousand veterans, heroes of the faded blue, are here at home; 
the great group of fine buildings, the extensive grounds, with 
their arboreal and floral wealth, the model farm of nearly 500 
acres, and, above all, the veterans themselves, make this square 
mile a place of intense interest. Street car service through a 
beautiful country, connects the home with Santa Monica, and 
with the excellent suburban service of the Southern Pacific 
Company, enables the sightseer to visit both places in one day. 

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SANTA Joyous thousands have hailed Santa Monica as 
MONICA Q ueen °f the Surf. Made easy of access by the 
suburban train service to Los Angeles, more fun has 
been found in its breakers, more laughter heard along its fine 
beach, more good fish dinners had at the Hotel Arcadia, more 
happy gallops, and more flying spins along its magnificent ave- 
nues obtained, than at any other beach in the southland. 

The Hotel Arcadia, facing the ocean, and kissed by the last' 
beams of the sun, has a superb setting of semi-tropic wealth on 
the land side. There is no hotel anywhere more modern or more 
attractive. The fish grill-room with its walls strung with the 
reminders of many a hard-fought battle with rod and reel, would 
make any fish proud to be there. 

Yachting, rowing, riding, tennis, golf, bicycling, driving, 
beach-combing, fishing, boating, loafing — these are a few of the 
things that make every hour at Santa Monica worth a week of 
reality at home, and in the matter of recollection, a year. The 
curling surf says " swim;" the wharf, with poles sticking out all 
over it like pins in a cushion, importunes "fish;" beautiful ave- 
nues through a country worthy of its magnificent trees plead a 
trip on foot or otherwise; the dining-room and the sea air will 




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Interior of North Beach Bath House. 

make anyone continuously hungry; the ocean, white-dotted with 
sails, plainly invites you to fly; golf and other games are a con- 
stant taunt to your ambition; and the easy sand and the warm 
sunshine, with the gentle air of the Pacific, just compel you to 
loaf and dream. 

The North Beach bath-house is one of the most enjoyable 
bathing places on the coast for those who want a bath a little 
warmer or a trifle different from that afforded by the frolicsome 
old ocean. There is a large, warm-water plunge and private tub 
baths. The new 1400-foot pleasure wharf is a really fine place 
from which to catch fish and a tanned face. 

Santa Monica is more than a resort; it is a city with fine 
business buildings, beautiful homes, shady streets, electric cars, 
gas, and electric lights. 

PORT Riding along the edge of the surf to Santa 

LOS ANGELES Monica Canon, a pleasant retreat for pic- 
nickers, and thence out into the ocean, the 
end of the famous Port Los Angeles wharf, 4720 feet long, is 
reached. Almost a mile from land an excellent view of Santa 
Monica Bay and the ocean is obtained. More big fish and more 
big fish stories are captured from the end of this wharf than 
from any other on the coast. The immense coal bunkers into 
which the great coal-carrying ships empty themselves, are worthy 
of inspection. 

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The Great Pier, Port Los Angeles. 

The trip between Santa Monica and the end of the Port Los 
Angeles wharf is very interesting, and no one should leave 
Santa Monica without taking it. 

Near the land terminus of the wharf is Santa Monica Canon, 
a favorite place for picnickers, a pretty canon with fine water 
and lots of shade. 

Los Angeles to Santa Barbara* 

Northward from Los Angeles the Southern Pacific Com- 
pany's line strikes boldly between the Sierra Madre and San 
Rafael ranges, and turning to the left from Saugus, between 
beetling cliffs and the ocean, forms the famous shore line to 
Santa Barbara. 

TROPICO Tropico is a beautiful suburb of Los Angeles, 
thirteen minutes away. It is the station for 
East and West Glendale, Verdugo and Eagle Rock. It is famous 
for small fruits, especially winter strawberries, being the home of 
the famous "Tropico Beauty" strawberry, and ships 200 carloads 
of oranges per year. Its beautiful location is making it very 
popular as a place of homes. The ancient " Camino Real " pas-ses 
through Tropico, and is one of the most beautiful of driveways. 
The Pacific Art Tile Works have just installed a large tile plant 
near Tropico. 

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BURBANK Burbank j s the center of enough rich land to sup- 

port a city. An irrigating system will shortly 

double values about this handsome town. Agriculture means 

prosperity hereabouts. Burbank is the junction point for branch 

line via Saugus and main Coast line via Chatsworth Park. 

CHAT<s WORTH Chatsworth Park, is on the new through line 

PARK ^ ust com P leted between Montalvo and Burbank. 

The great tunnel here cost much in time and 

labor, but shortens the Coast line materially. The country around 

Chatsworth Park is of the good old-fashioned agricultural kind 




Mission San Fernando and Its Guardian Palms. 



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Yucca Palm, Palmdaie. 

that produces many bushels to the acre, and the crop returns fill 
many carloads. 

FERNANDO "^ n ^ e nortn en< ^ °^ tne ^ an Fernando Valley is 
the town of Fernando, proud of an old mission 
and a new mission, too. The old affair is being looked after by 
the Landmark Club; the new one is being cared for by Fer- 
n-ando's confident and energetic citizens. Orange, lemon, and 
olive groves are profitably in evidence. There is one little olive 
grove of 1300 acres planted a short time ago that is worthy of 
attention, as it is the largest in the world. Artesian wells furnish 
good water. The climate is of the best. The town has fine 
schools and churches, and is being made headquarters for Seventh 
Day Adventists from the whole southwestern portion of the 
United States. 

Mission San Fernando de Espaho is near the station, and is 
noted both for its own beauty and the loveliness of its surround- 
ings. The historic structure with its great arches, tile-paved 
floor, its long cloister and ruined fountain, bring vividly to mind 
the self-sacrificing toil of generations gone. 

NEW HALL Newhall has two industries that are factors in 
prosperity; oil wells and placer gold mines, both 
of which are adding to> the jolly appearance of its inhabitants. 
The town is a natural sanitarium. 

SAUOUS Saugus is the junction point of the Santa Barbara 

branch and the main line. It claims fame as a 

health resort, and at least one Southern Pacific agent owes his 

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life to the worth of its climate. To the north on the main 
line are in succession Lang, Ravenna, Acton, Vincent, Palmdale, 
Lancaster, Mojave, and Tehachapi. 

ACTON Acton is becoming prominent as a health resort, its 
altitude, equable temperature, dry climate, and inter- 
esting surroundings making it a first-class place wherein to 
laugh and grow fat. At no place in California can tourists see 
with less trouble gold mines in operation than here. There are 
about twenty gold mines, one extending 750 feet underground, 
and many of them very productive. 

Acton is the gateway to the new resort on Mt. Gleason, des- 
tined to be one of the great popular pleasure places on the coast. 
From its 6000-foot elevation may be seen mountain, desert, val- 
ley, ocean. Trees up there are 200 feet high ; but if you do not 
care for climbing, hunting, exploring, and quartz-collecting are 
enjoyable pastimes. Large quantities of comb honey are annually 
shipped from here to northern and eastern markets. 

MOJAVE Mojave is the junction of the Southern Pacific Com- 
pany and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and 
is a railroad center of importance, now being a terminal in the 
San Joaquin Division. A large mining country is tributary to it, 
and several companies have begun work within five miles of the 
town. The increasing activity and enlargement of the plants show 
the investments to be of a permanent character. Stages now con- 
nect Mojave with Keeler. More than $2,000,000 have been ex- 
pended on the mines at Bowers' Hill and Soledad Hill. 

CAMULOS Westward the Santa Barbara branch passes 

through picturesque Camulos, ever dear to the 

lovers of literature as the home of " Ramona." Here by the 




Rancho Camulos, Home of Ramona. 

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Bean Fields. 

Santa Clara River with the mountains of San Fernando on the 
south, and to the north the gentle foothills, lived Ramona. The 
corrals, vineyards and orchards, and the old chapel, still stand 
as of old, vivid proof of the power of word-picturing possessed 
by Helen Hunt Jackson. 

PIRU ^ Piru all kinds of fruit are at home, and many a val- 
uable orchard bears evidence by the carload of the value 
of good land and perfect climate. Here also are about sixty good 
oil wells producing a thousand barrels per day. 

FILLMORE Fillmore and more oil, near the mouth of the 
interesting Sespe Canon, a delightful hunting 
and fishing country. Here the busy bee gathers sweetness from 
untold acres of blossom and boxes it for the lazy man to sweeten 
his taste upon. Fillmore is the center of the citrus belt of Ven- 
tura County, with a fine irrigating system. 

SANTA PAULA — 1 moves tne wheels of commerce smoothly 
in Santa Paula, and the growth of the town 
has been steady since the development of the oil industry. The 
famous Sulphur Mountain Springs are near here. Citrus and 
deciduous fruits, and corn, beans and walnuts are raised in 
abundance. The city is well built, paved, and possesses fine 
public buildings. It was incorporated as a city in 1902, and is the 
headquarters of many oil companies. 



SATICOY Saticoy is noted for its twenty acres of sparkling 
springs and its artesian wells; it is a deciduous fruit 
center, and walnuts and beans rival each other in profit. The 
largest walnut grove in the world is near here. 
nONTALVO "^ * s ^ e J unc tio n of the new main line by Oxnard 
and is surrounded by great orchards of fruit, 
apricots and walnuts being extensively grown. 

From Montalvo the route of the main line is now via Oxnard 
and Chatsworth Park. The completion of the Santa Susanna 
Tunnel has closed the gap, and added a new stretch of country to 
the Coast Line. The route is shorter than that via Saugus by 
about six miles. The new tunnel is nearly a mile and a half in 
length and was more than three years in being drilled, gangs 
working from both ends unceasingly, day and night. The com- 
pletion of this great enterprise means not only six miles saved, 
but a great reduction in grade, and easier and quicker transporta- 
tion. The new line crosses the Santa Clara River near Montalvo, 
runs through the rich valley of the same name, and then through 
the picturesque hills of the Santa Susana Mountains into the San 
Fernando Valley. 

OXNARD Oxnard is a city of 2700 people. Its site five years 
ago was an ordinary productive ranch. To-day it 
has fine brick business blocks, beautiful homes, six churches, 
600 school children, three school buildings costing $65,000, good 
hotels, two banks and one of the largest beet-sugar factories in 
America. The factory can crush 2000 tons of beets daily, and is 



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Threshing Beans. 
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Beet Sugar Factory, Oxnard. 

doing it. It produced last year 1095 carloads of sugar, 250 car- 
loads of beans, twenty-live carloads of nuts, and a large amount 
of grain. Twelve thousand head of cattle are being successfully 
fed on beet pulp. 

Oxnard has a fine avenue to a fine ocean beach, thirty min- 
utes' drive. It is well located in the fertile Santa Clara Valley 




Field of Calla Lillies, Ventura, 

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(not to be confused with the larger Santa Clara Valley of which 
San Jose is the center). It is on the main Coast line of the 
Southern Pacific, and its future is most promising. 

This immense beet-sugar factory, valued at $2,000,000, with 
nineteen thousand acres of sugar beets, is the cause of Oxnard's 
prosperity. Three and a half miles from Hueneme, on the coast, 
it has a perfect climate. 

SOMIS ^ n ^ ie new mam coast nne - Somis is to be a town of 
importance. From an elevation of 250 feet it overlooks 
the pretty Las Posas Valley and the ocean, eleven miles away. 
Beans, nuts and deciduous fruits all do well here, and fine crops 
of barley, corn, wheat and oats are grown. 

cam They know beans here, and grow beans, 

BUENAVENTURA to °' ^ ot * n §' ar ^ en patches, but in broad 

fields that stretch away to the mountains — 
beans by the carload, beans by the trainload, beans that are 
excellent boiled in primitive hunter's fashion, or baked in 
approved Boston style. 

San Buenaventura is the county town of Ventura County, and 
is a pretty, energetic, seaside city of 3000 people. It is the junc- 
tion of the Ojai Valley branch with the Santa Barbara line. The 
country is noted, not only for its beans, but as well, for the 




Elizabeth Bard Memorial, San Buenaventura. 

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variety and quality of its fruits ; a new city hall and national 
bank have been recently built, and the business section improved 
by the addition of fine new blocks. Cattle raising, dairying and 
hog raising are important industries. 

Mission San Buenaventura, southernmost of the Channel mis- 
sions, is in a state of good preservation. It is in the city, within 




In Casltas Pass. 
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Mirror Lake, Ojai Valley. 

five minutes' walk of the railroad station. The city of Ventura 
is the home of U. S. Senator Bard. It is a great health resort, 
and among the best governed of cities. The Elizabeth Bard 
Memorial Hospital has been recently built as a tribute to the 
memory of the mother of Dr. Cephas L. and Senator Bard. 

NORDHOFF ^ tr * p tnrou ^ n ^ e ^tile Ojai Valley to Nordhoff 
is entrancing. It is a park-like country, with trees 
hidden with climbing ivy. A few miles from Santa Barbara the 
road traverses the picturesque Casitas (little houses) Pass. 
Nordhoff has a beautiful panorama of mountains all about it, with 
a perfect climate, good fishing and hunting, and neighboring hot 
springs. It is also well known as the location of the Thacher 
School for Boys, a model educational institution. The Oak Glen 
cottages, a mile distant, form one of California's most charming 
places. The wild flowers of Nordhoff are famous the world over. 

Only three miles from Nordhoff are Wheeler's Hot Springs, in 
Matilija Canon, a wonderfully good place in which to get well 
if you are ill. Accommodations are excellent, including a fine 
hotel, electric lights, telephone, etc. 

Few trips by rail are more interesting than that along the 
shore line to Santa Barbara. On the one hand cliffs, castled and 
domed, and on the other, within the easy pitch of a stone, the 
pellucid waters of the Santa Barbara channel. Like blue clouds 
upon the horizon lie the islands. With every turn of nature's 

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CARPINTERIA 



picturesque pathway, comes some new bit of entrancing scenery 
— a glimpse of the sunlit ocean, or of some half-hidden Eden. 

Seventeen miles beyond Ventura is Carpin- 
teria, an old Spanish settlement in the land of 
the fig-tree and vine. Oranges, bananas, lemons, guavas, wal- 
nuts, and strawberries flourish. Here is the largest grapevine 
in the world, sixty years old, and now some eight feet and six 
inches in circumference at its base. It bore in 1896 ten tons of 
grapes and its branches cover an arbor of over 100 feet square. 
It outclasses the celebrated English vine at Hampton Court. Five 
miles more of delightful ride and Summerland is reached. Five 
miles distant is a pretty mountain resort, — Shepard's Inn. 

SUMMERLAND Enjoying fame for many years as a resort 
place, it now, in the light of a singular devel- 
opment, promises great commercial importance. At no other 
place in the world are oil wells bored in the ocean and oil taken 
from the depths. At last oil and water seemingly are near to 
mingling. Making the ocean yield up its oil a quarter of a mile 
from land is a feat unique enough to be worth a journey. 



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This group of cottages forms one of the most 
artistic and charming resorts on a charming 
coast. It is a hotel with the quality of an English country house, 
and is an almost ideal resting-place, having behind it the beauty 
of the mountains and before it the music of the sea. It is three 
miles from Santa Barbara. 




The Venerable Grapevine, Carpinteria. 

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SANTA Facing the beauty-reflecting waters of the Santa 
BARBARA Barbara channel, with the islands lending their 
gracefulness to the horizon, with as fine a beach as 
ever was laved by the tide, with an ocean boulevard that follows 
the surf for miles in an unbroken reach of smooth asphaltum, 
with beautiful canon drives and trails that lead you to the moun- 
tain tops and unfold the glories of a Promised Land; with a mag- 
nificent highway of the mountains, whence valley, city, channel, 
islands, a picture that only Nature could paint, give the eye 
a greater value; with a background of softly rounded slopes and 
rugged hills; with valleys rich in the vegetation of the semi- 
tropics and an ocean that fades away shimmering to the sky; 




Patio of Mission Santa Barbara. 

with homes so lovely and estates so attractive as to be in them- 
selves worthy of a long pilgrimage; with a historic mission to 
lend it the glamour of romance; with a climate unexcelled and 
indeed with sea and mountain and sky all combined by Nature 
in an effort to reach perfection, Santa Barbara is superb, enchant- 
ing. 

Santa Barbara is a handsome city with electric cars, finely 
paved streets and boulevards, good schools including kindergar- 
tens and Sloyd schools, a public library that public intelligence 
has made almost uniquely fine in its character, and hotels that 



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Arlington Hotel, Santa Barbara. 



have been catering to critical guests until they have nothing to 
learn in the art of entertaining. 

The surf bathing is unexcelled, there being no undertow and 
the beach being without a superior. Six miles from the city are 
fine sulphur springs to which the stage runs daily through a 
beautiful country of trees and flowers. Yachting, bathing, boat- 
ing, driving, riding, bicyling, golf and tennis are only a few of 
many favorite recreations. 

The city has tapped a mountain for its water supply. It has 
all the conveniences of a modern metropolis, and many such 

unique features as a town clock with Westminster chimes. 

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Only its comparative inaccessibility has prevented Santa Bar- 
bara from becoming a greater city and a Mecca for idealists: 
Brook Farm could hardly have been anything but a success here. 
Ail active Chamber of Commerce is now at work in its behalf, and 
the completion of the Southern Pacific Company's coast line gives 
to Santa Barbara the prominence that this city by the sea deserves. 

" The Potter " is one of the great hotels of the West. It is 
new, having been erected in 1902, at a cost of more than one 
million dollars. It sprang at once into great popularity, and was 
thronged by tourists from various parts of the world seeking at 
once the luxuries of a great Resort Hotel and the fascination of 
a perfect climate. The great caravansary is but six hundred 
feet from the sea, and directly in touch with the great Bath House 
Los Banos Del Mar, and the Plaza Del Mar. The view of sea 
and shore, of mountain and valley, the blue waters of the channel 

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Elwood Cooper's Olive Grove, Elwood. 

and its islands is one of great beauty. This modern twentieth 
century hotel is also open during the summer months, a tribute 
to the delights of the summer climate of Santa Barbara. 

The Arlington is up-town, in beautiful grounds, with a well 
established character for luxury and comfort. It is well known 
and very popular. 

One of Santa Barbara's chief attractions is Mission Santa 
Barbara Virgin y Martyr, serving the work to which it was 
consecrated when peace had but come to the American 
Republic, and its wise men were struggling with the ques- 
tion of a constitution. The church is of dressed stone, with 
massive walls heavily buttressed. The two-story towers yet 
shelter the chime of bells, and the famous garden with its foun- 
tain, so often pictured, still scents the air with fragrance. The 
mission has been carefully preserved, and to-day is one of the 
most interesting and imposing of them all. It is a lighthouse of 
hope from the sea, a beautiful landmark in white relief against 
the surrounding green of the hill tops, its double towers in 
stately dignity overlooking their pleasant surroundings as they 
did two generations ago. Back of Santa Barbara is the lovely 
vale of Montecito, most beautiful of all valleys. Among Santa 
Barbara's resources are oranges, lemons, walnuts, beans, oil, 
vegetables, honey, live stock, deciduous fruits, stone, lumber, etc. 

From Santa Barbara the line runs through park-like estates to 
Elwood, remarkable for its fine orchards of olives, oranges, and 
other fruits. 



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The Land Beyond. 

Any description of California South of Tehachapi without 
reference to that vast country east of the mountain wall that 
encircles the better known sections, would indeed be like a ban- 
quet without a dessert. 

Vaguely described as " The Desert," the wilderness between 
the mountains and the Colorado River has many points of inter- 
est all its own. It is a desert with the treasures of King Solo- 
mon's Mines; it is a desert with more salt of the earth than any 
other in the world; it is a desert with oases that have the atmos- 
phere of life; it is a desert with mountains miles high and basins 
two hundred feet below the surf of the Pacific; it is a desert of 
sand and yet of luxuriant vegetation; it is a desert so unique in 
both animal and vegetable life as to be of endless interest. 

Here lives the sand terrapin, almost a counterpart of the 
common mud-turtle, but an absolute teetotaler. Water to him 
is an unknown quantity that no algebraist could make him appre- 
ciate the value of. Yet the turtle weed that grows in baked sand 
in the fierce direct and refracted rays of the sun, with moisture 
neither in air nor land, gathers within its leaf a drop of water. 
Tiny rabbits frisk about underneath the mesquite tree — a tree, by 
the way, that in the desert, springing from one stem, buries its 
limbs in the sand, whence it grows again, forming an almost 
impenetrable chaparral. Miniature quail, too, live in this arid 
land. Long reefs that may be traced for miles mark sea level 
on the sides of basins, shells that were once of the ocean lying 
amid a wilderness of sand. Cacti of fantastic forms, volcanic 
creations of curious shapes, bare gaunt mountains, levels of 
seemingly endless sand, with which the winds play, and where 
sudden thunder-storms break violently — these are of the desert. 
BEAUMONT ^ n ^ e crest °^ San Gorgonio Pass, between two 
mountain walls, lies Beaumont, a pretty, health- 
ful town, with a fine fruit and grain country tributary to it. 
BANNING ^ n t * ie desert side of the crest, and yet not of the 
desert, is Banning, a little city that enjoys great 
prosperity, chiefly on account of its productive acres, and partly 
by reason of its picturesque location and well-earned reputation 
as a health resort. It is claimed that the fruit crop during the 
past season yielded several hundred dollars revenue for every 
inhabitant of the colony. 

PALM SPRINGS Palm Springs is not properly an oasis, per- 
haps, for it is on the edge of the desert (five 
miles from the station), and not in the midst thereof; yet in its 
great palms, its verdure, and its wonderful waters, it is possessed 
of the attractions of a perfect oasis. The great San Jacinto 
mountains tower over it, and lend to it the breath of the forest. 

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Palm Springs. 

No fog ever enveloped this region of clear air, and the clouds 
that growl along the mountain tops are chiefly impressive in their 
scenic effects. There is little rain at Palm Springs, the mountain 
sending tribute in a plentiful supply of pure water. The mineral 
hot spring is remarkable for its curative properties. There is 
no finer natural sanitarium than Palm Valley. 

Dr. Wellwood Murray, a man of wide learning and of un- 
rivalled experience in the West, has established a Sanitarium 
here where invalids can find at once the best of climates and the 
best of care. In this dry, aseptic and invigorating air of the 
desert, in these healing waters and under the care of a wise 
physician, the natural conditions are such as to make for health. 
There are cottages with fireplaces and enclosed porches, a hotel, 
shaded grounds, good food, milk from cows on the place, vine- 
yards and fruit trees. There is a church, store, postofflce, daily 
mail and telephone. The scenery is unusual and attractive. Rates 
are $2.00 per day, with special rates for the season. 

INDIO ^ t ^ ie strm & °^ stations between Palm Springs and 
Yuma, Indio is one of the most interesting. It is below 
sea level, in the heart of the desert, and is a wonderful example 
of newly created oasis. A quarter of a mile below the surface of 
burning sand, is a subterranean stream that, tapped by artesian 
wells, has given to Indio the bloom of tropical life. It is a cot- 
tage resort, and has all modern conveniences. Those afflicted 
with lung troubles find its climate very beneficial. 



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Palm Canyon. 



COACHELLA Coachella is another example of an oasis in the 
desert, created by artesian wells. It is below sea 
level, part of a fertile valley of the same name, and recently was 
counted waste land. Now it ships the earliest grapes and melons, 
the latter in great quantities, and produces fruit and vegetables, 
alfalfa, sorghum, etc., in abundance. It is said that this is the 
earliest fruit and vegetable producing section in the United 
States. Watermelons are tempting early in June, but their very 
abundance makes them safe, as here melons are more numerous 
than small boys. Cantaloupes are shipped by the train load, and 
are a great feature of the region. Alfalfa grows luxuriantly, and 
can be cut seven or eight times a year. All grains do well, and 
cattle, hogs and poultry are easily fed from the soil. Over 200 
artesian wells are now flowing upon this land. Mecca, where the 
agricultural department of the Government has established a Date 
Garden, is in this valley, and close beside Coachella. There is no 
reason to doubt the success of this experiment, and a new and 
profitable industry will soon help to transform this desert corner 
of the State. 

The experiments of the Government through a term of years, 
and the measure of success secured in Arizona, and a study by an 
expert of the conditions of soil and climate in the date-growing 
country of Asia is sufficient warrant for the experiment here. 
The success of the Date Garden will furnish stock for private 

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investors, and we will ultimately see the characteristic fruit of 
Asia produced on these lands in commercial quantities. It will be 
a novel addition to the long list of California productions, and 
when this once desert country has become an oasis of palms and 
fountains, it will not need either Arabs or camels to make it pictur- 
esque. The Date palm wants heat, drought and moisture, the first 
two in the air, the latter at the roots of the plant. Then it 
flourishes. 

Is California to add another commercial product to her vast 
variety? The experiments of the Government in Arizona are suffi- 
cient ground for confidence, and it is fairly certain that plantations 
of dates will succeed in this region, and become an article of 
commerce. 

<* a | ton Salton is at the bottom of a sea that was. Two hun- 
dred and sixty-five feet below the face of the ocean, 
it has a heavy, dry atmosphere, of great value in pulmonary 
trouble. The evaporation of an inland sea has left here an 
immense body of practically pure salt that is mined and refined 
and used throughout the West. 

OLD BEACH This is now a junction point, a new line extend- 
ing into the one time desert, now filling up with 
farms and dotted with villages that will rapidly grow into towns. 



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Salt Harvest at Salton. 

BR AW LEY This is the first station on the branch line, and, in 
common with the others, is a temperance town. 
This indicates the character of the new life which is transforming 
the desert. 

IMPERIAL ^ e ^ rst town started in the new district. It has 
a good hotel, a Methodist Church, a First Na- 
tional Bank, several stores, postoffice, telephone system, weekly 
newspaper, ice and refrigerating plant and a water system. There 
are perhaps 2,500 people in the town and five or six thousand in 
town and colony. Watered by a vast system of canals the desert 
has proven productive beyond all dreams. Egyptian corn, Kaffir 
corn, Milo maize, barley, hay, alfalfa, sorghum, wheat and vegeta- 
bles of every description grow surprisingly. The summer heat is 
great, but the dryness of the atmosphere is such that it is not 
enervating, and the shade is comfortable. The winter climate is 
very fine, and the night sky glows as it does in but few places in 
the world, showing the purity of the air. 

CALEX1CO This is the present terminus of the line, 41 miles 

from Old Beach, and on the Mexican boundary 
line. It will probably make a trading point of some prominence 
and a revenue station of the government. Holtville and Silsbee 
are new towns, the former connected with Imperial by an electric 
railway. 

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The water for irrigating is taken from the Colorado River, and 
is heavily charged with silt. This perpetually renews and fertil- 
izes the soil, and the growth of crops feeding on the abundant 
plant life in this warm air is a revelation to the Eastern farmer. 
The fertility of irrigated lands should be noted by the investor. 
The Nile Valley produces to-day as it did in Pharaoh's day : 
China's soil is inexhaustible, the water renewing and making- 
fruitful these ancient lands from year to year. There is no 
expense for fertilizers, and no " abandoned farms " where the 
silt-laden waters of the Colorado are turned upon the .fields. 

In January, 1901, not a single white man lived in the desert 
region formed by the delta of the Colorado, in the extreme south- 
eastern part of the State. On January 6, 1902, a dozen surveyors 
were on the ground, running lines for canals, and on January 1, 
1903, 2,000 settlers had arrived. A year and a half later and 
there were perhaps 7,000 people cultivating 70,000 acres, or con- 
stituting the citizenship of four towns, of which Imperial is central, 
with nearly 1,200 population. The railroad at tnis writing is being 
extended over the border into Mexico. " It sounds like a tale 
from the Arabian Nights, but it is absolutely true." And the 
promise of tomorrow is more wonderful than the facts of to-day. 
The growth of every form of plant life is amazing, and the old 
Hebrew conception of the desert blossoming as the rose is being 




Irrigating Canal, Imperial, 

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realized. Given good soil, plenty of sunshine, and abundant 
moisture, and man needs only to put the seed into the ground to 
have the harvests laughing before him. 

OQILBY Ogilby is the station for an important mining district, 
Hedges, a large mining camp, being but a few miles 
away. It is the shipping point for the Palo Verde country on the 
Colorado River north of Yuma, and has bright prospects which 
are in a fair way of realization. 

YUMA Yuma is the gateway to California South of Tehachapi 
of the Sunset Route, and as such, though in Arizona, is 
entitled to mention. The Southern Pacific Company has com- 
pleted a new bridge across the Colorado River. If you desire 
to study the aborigine on his native heath, there is no better 
place than Yuma. The territorial penitentiary, and an Indian 
school, are prominent features. A decision by the Supreme 
Court in favor of the government has resulted in throwing open 
a large body of fertile land, five miles south of Yuma, to settlers, 
and water, that magic agent of progress, is being brought to bear 
on the lands. It is taken from the Colorado in canals, and thou- 
sands of acres are coming gradually under cultivation. Both 
citrus and deciduous fruits do well here, and the town has fair 
prospects. The climate is warm, but so dry that sunstrokes are 
unknown. 

Hotels* 

California is proud of its hotels. Dr. Lyman Abbott, in his 
recent articles in The Outlook entitled "Impressions of a Careless 
Traveler," says of them : "The hotels are decidedly better than 
they average on the Atlantic Coast. We have stopped at all 
kinds of hotels, from the little inn in the woods, with no village 
near and no attractions for tourists except the stillness of a great 
solitude, to the great hotel in the heart of a city, with accom- 
modations for four hundred guests, and we have not found a poor 
hotel in all our journey. In every hotel we have had not only the 
physical comfort of clean rooms, good food and generally prompt 
attendance, but that indefinable comfort which only a genuinely 
hospitable spirit and desire to please can produce. The prices 
are decidedly more reasonable than in hotels of the same class in 
summer resorts on the North Atlantic Coast or winter resorts on 
the South Atlantic Coast. We have invariably chosen the best 
hotels." 

This is striking testimony and it is true. You will not be dis- 
appointed in the great hotels of this region, planned as they are to 
meet the best class of tourist travel, and the houses of a cheaper 
grade will be found to provide good food, good beds, good service 
and courteous attention. 

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Some Hotels of Los Angeles. 
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Hotels of Southern California* 

Los Angeles Hotels. 

Angelas Hotel, A. or E S.W. cor. Fourth and Spring 

Hollenbeck Hotel, A. or E S.W. cor. Second and Spring 

Nadeau Hotel, A. or E S.W. cor. First and Spring- 
Van Nuys Hotel, A. or E N.W. cor. Fourth and Main 

Van Nuys Broadway Hotel, A. or E 416 South Broadway 

Westminster Hotel, A. or E N.E. cor. Fourth and Main 

Natick Hotel, A. or E. S.W. cor. First and Main 

Hotel Palms, A or E 615 South Broadway 

Arcade Depot Hotel, E Arcade Depot 

Hotel Broadway, A. or E 429 South Broadway 

Hotel Rosslyn, A. or E 433 South Main 

St. Elmo Hotel, E 343 North Main 

Lexington Hotel, A. or E 447 South Main 

Hotel Fremont, A. or E S.W. cor. Fourth and Olive 

Grand Central Hotel, A. or E 326 North Main 

A American plan. E European plan. 

Family and Tourist Hotels, 
american plan. 

Abbotsford Inn S.W. cor. Hope and Eighth Streets 

Alvarado N.E. cor. Alvarado and Sixth Streets 

Argyle 429 West Second Street 

Beacon 720 Beacon Street 

Bellevue Terrace N.W. cor. Figueroa and Sixth Streets 

Bonnie Brae 717 South Alvarado 

Brunswick S.E. cor. Hill and Sixth Streets 

California 331 West Second Street 

Cecil N.E. cor. Olive and First Streets 

Crocker Mansion 300 South Olive Street 

Devon Inn N.W. cor. Broadway and Tenth Street 

Figueroa 1610 South Figueroa Street 

Garvanza Villa Pasadena and Avenue Sixty-three 

Germain . . . . .N.W. cor. Hope and Fourth Streets 

Gray Gables S.E. cor. Hill and Seventh Streets 

Lakeview N.E. cor. Grand View and Sixth Streets 

Lankershim S.E. cor. Broadway and Seventh Street 

Leighton N.E. cor. Lake and Sixth Streets 

Lillie 534 South Hill Street 

Lincoln S.W. cor. Hill and Second Streets 

Locke 139 South Hill Street 

Melrose 130 South Grand Street 

New Coronado 667 Coronado Street 

Pepper S.W. cor. Burlington and Seventh Streets 

Rookwood N.E. cor. Olive and Eighth Streets 

Rossmore 416 West Sixth Street 

Westlake 720 Westlake Avenue 

Westmoore S.W. cor. Francisco and Seventh Streets 

Willoughby 506 South Hill Street 

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Family and Tourist Rooming Houses. 

EUROPEAN PLAN. 

Aldine 326 South Hill 

Antlers 421 West Fourth 

Ashley 444 South Grand 

Ammidon 1951 South Grand 

Angelo 237 North Grand 

Baltimore 427 West Seventh 

Buckley 734 South Hill 

Broxburn 452 South Hill 

Catalina 439 South Broadway 

Chester „ „ fc 454 South Spring 

Clarendon , .. 408 South Hill 

Colorado . . ., 621^2 South Broadway 

Corona 227 West Seventh 

Colonade 330 South Hill 

Davis 555 South Grand 

Delaware 534^ South Broadway 

Earl Cliffe 231 South Bunker Hill 

Elgin S.W. cor. Hill and Seventh 

El Moro 109 South Hill 

Glengary 527 West Sixth 

Grand Pacific 423^2 South Spring 

Gray 274 South Main 

Gladstone 505^2 South Main 

Grenada 419 South Grand 

Hinman N.E. cor. Figueroa and Seventh 

Highland Villa 103 North Hill 

Johnson 123 East Fourth 

Judd 344 South Grand 

Knox 314 West Fourth 

Kenilworth 1033 South Hope 

Laurel 721 South Broadway 

Livingston 635 South Hill 

Lovejoy Cor. Grand and Third 

Louise 520 South Broadway 

Marlboro 549 South Grand 

Milton 539^4 South Broadway 

Minnewaska Cor. Grand and Second 

Mt. Pleasant. Cor. West First and Boyle 

Munn 438 South Olive 

Nahant ^2^ South Broadway 

Narragansett 4^3 South Broadway 

Normandie. 455 South Broadway 

Poinsetta : 5 12 South Spring- 
Portsmouth 5 X 6^2 South Hill 

Prescott 425 Temple 

Rio Grande 4 2 5 West Second 

Rossmore 416 West Sixth 

Spencer 316^ West Third 

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Savoy 405^2 South Broadway 

Stanford 350 South Hill 

Santa Barbara 433 South Hope 

Touraine 447 South Hope 

Waldo N.E. cor. Main and Fifth 

Wallace 406 West Seventh 

Watanga 123 North Broadway 

Vogel 312 West Seventh 

Miramar. — The Miramar. Ontario. — The Ontario 

OCEAN PARK. 

The Holborrow Pier Avenue 

PASADENA. 

Carlton Colorado Street 

Hotel Green Raymond Avenue 

Hotel Guirnaldo Colorado Street 

Hotel Maryland Colorado Street 

Hotel Raymond Raymond Hill 

La Pintoresca Washington and Fair Oaks Avenue 

Mitchell Fair Oaks Avenue and Vineyard Street 

Various family and tourist hotels of lesser size. 

POMONA. 

Keller House Palomares Pacific Hotel 

REDLANDS. 

Baker House Water and Orange 

Casa Loma Orange Street and Colton Avenue 

RIVERSIDE. 

Glenwood Tavern Main and Seventh 

Holy wood Hotel Market and Eighth 

Hotel Reynolds Main and Ninth 

The Anchorage Colton Avenue 

SANTA BARBARA. 

Arlington State and Victoria 

Mascarel State and California 

Raffour Hotel De la Guerra Plaza 

Morris House State and Holly 

Potter Burton Mound 

SANTA MONICA. 

Arcadia Ocean Avenue 

Atlanta Ocean Avenue 

Santa Monica Ocean Avenue 

Clarendon Utah Avenue 

SANTA ANA. 

Rossmore Richelieu 

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The Old Missions of Southern California* 

These monuments of a century past are full of interest. They 
are almost the only remaining landmarks of California's earliest 
settlement, and they recall one of the most remarkable idyls of 
civilization. While the American nation was taking shape on 
the Atlantic Coast and the smoke and roar of conflict was in the 
air, on this remote Coast the Franciscans were building these 
quaint churches, and training the Indian tribes in the arts of 
peace. These mission settlements were about a day's journey 
distant from each other, and each mission valley was quickly filled 
with flocks and herds. While vines and olive trees, palms and 
oranges were growing, gardens were cultivated, and the whole 
place had a pastoral air so quiet, so peaceful, so free from the 
strife of politics or the excitements of business, as to seem very 
attractive in the retrospect. Many of the churches they builded 
were impressive in size, beautiful in design, and very wonderful 
creations when we remember that the designers were priests, and 
the workmen a few soldiers and the untaught Indians. Many 
have been allowed to fall into decay, but the very ruins are im- 
pressive. The interest felt in California in these landmarks of 
her earliest civilization is great enough to lead to a working 
organization called "The Landmarks Club," whose object is to 
restore and preserve the old missions, and much excellent work 
has already been done. The chapel and monastery of San Fer- 
nando Mission has been reroofed, and much valuable work done 
at San Juan Capistrano in restoring the corridors, 387 feet in 
length of the principal building, and buttressing the crumbling 
stone pillars which support all that is left of the great church. 
It has been estimated that this structure would cost to duplicate 
it today more than $100,000. It was more than nine years in 
building. . 

It is impossible not to feel the charm which these old structures 
add to the country. The sunburned bricks were produced where 
the church was erected, and the soft color of the adobe blends 
with the landscape, and they seem as much a part of it as the 
trees do. The architecture is unusual, its beauty not of today, nor 
of California, but of the yesterday of Mexico, of Spain, of Italy 




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and Grenada. Something of the best days of Old World coun- 
tries blossomed in the wilderness of California, and now that 
the desert has become the garden, and the beautiful solitude 
populous with homes, there is a great desire to perpetuate the 
structures which once were exotics, but now are part of the 
history of the land. Under no other sky save perhaps that of Italy 
or Southern Spain, could these fragile materials have held together 
half so long. The mild winters have no frost with which to 
throw down the walls, the summers no storms to unroof them. 
They are here to remind us of a romantic period in the history of 
the State — 

A remnant of the wealth and prime, 

With the halcyon grace around them of the dreamy Spanish 
time. 
The Southern Pacific for several hundred miles follows the 
trail between the missions, and many are so conveniently near 
the railroads that to pass them by without a visit and inspec- 
tion were in the tourist inexcusable. For easy reference, brief 
mention is made of those in the south. From time to time inter- 
esting articles about the missions have appeared in Sunset 
Magazine (published by the Southern Pacific Company) and 
should be read. 

Mission ^^ e ^ rst °^ California missions. Father Junipero 

San Diego Serra, whose faith conquered an empire in Cali- 
fornia, established it on July i, 1769. The building 
is in a fair state of preservation. It stands at Old Town, a short 
ride from San Diego, and close by the track of the Santa Fe. 

Mission San First visited J uly 3i, 1769, by Father 

Gabriel Archangel Juan Crespa, and founded two years 

later (September 8, 1771) by Fathers 
Somero and Cambon. It is well preserved and adjoins the 
Southern Pacific station of San Gabriel. 

Mission San Preparations were begun on April 30, 1775, 

Juan Capistrano ^y Father Lasuen for its founding, but 
1 trouble at San Diego caused operations to 

be suspended and it was not until November 1, 1776, that Father 
Junipero Serra unearthed the bells and rang out the chimes that 
marked the establishment of Mission San Juan Capistrano. An 
earthquake in 1812 partly destroyed the mission and the walls have 
not been rebuilt, but partially restored. This church was a beauti- 
ful structure, and built of rough stones, with a bell tower 125 

101 



feet in height. The earthquake occurred on a Sunday morning, 
and forty worshippers were crushed to death in the ruins. It is 
59 miles from Los Angeles on the Santa Fe. The station is within 
a short walk of the massive ruins of the old mission. 

Mission Near here were the first baptisms in California. 



San Luis Rey 



The mission was begun June 13, 1798, by Father 
Lasuen. It is still used for religious and educa- 
tional purposes. Reached from Oceanside, 85 miles from Los 
Angeles. From Oceanside drive four miles. 

Mission San This well preserved mission, one of the 

Fernando de Espana most interesting of them all is within 

an easy walk of the Fernando station 
of the Southern Pacific Company. It was founded in 1797 by 
Father Lasuen. It is 14 miles from Los Angeles on the line of the 
Southern Pacific and about a mile from the depot at San Fer- 
nando. (See page 70.) 

Mission San This, the most southern of channel missions, 

Buenaventura was established March 31, 1782, and a stone 
church completed in 1809. It is in the city 
and but a short walk from the station. The little city of San 
Buenaventura has good hotels if the visitor desires to stop over. 
(See page 75.) 

Mission Santa Barbara £ was founded December 4, 1786 
Virgen v Martvr by Father Lasuen, but the site had 

* y been surveyed in 1769 by Father 

Crespa. In 1820 the new church, just as it now stands, was con- 
secrated with impressive ceremonies. The mission has been care- 
fully preserved. It stands in the edge of the city, and will amply 
repay a visit. The interior and grounds are full of interest (See 
page 79.) 



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INDEX. 



PAGE 

Acton 71 

Alhambra 31 

Anaheim 55 

Banning 85 

Beaumont 85 

Bloomington 39 

Brawley 89 

Buena Park 55 

Burbank 69 

Calexico 89 

Camulos 71 

Carpinteria 78 

Chats worth Park 69 

Chino 38 

Coachella 87 

Colton 39 

Compton .60 

Covina 31 

Crafton 44 

Cucamonga 38 

Dolgeville 19 

Downey 54 

Duarte 27 

Elwood 83 

Fernando 70 

Fillmore 72 

Highgrove 47 

Hotels 92-97 

Imperial 89 

Indio 86 

Inside Track 27 

Lomo Linda 39 

Long Beach. 60 

Lordsburg 33 

Los Alamitos 55 

Los Angeles 9 

Miramar 78 

Missions 99 

Mojave 71 

Monrovia 27 

Montalvo 73 

Monte 31 



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Mount Lowe .25 

Newhall 70 

Newport . . . 58 

Nordhoff 77 

Norwalk .55 

Ogilby 92 

Old Beach 88 

Ontario 37 

Orange 56 

Oxnard 73 

Palmdale 71 

Palm Springs 85 

Pasadena 19 

Piru . 72 

Pomona .33 

Port Los Angeles 67 

Redlands 41 

Riverside . . . 47 

Salton 88 

San Bernardino 45 

San Buenaventura .75 

San Dimas 33 

San Gabriel 31 

San Pedro 61 

Santa Ana 56 

Santa Barbara 80 

Santa Catalina 64 

Santa Monica 66 

Santa Paula 72 

Saticoy 73 

Saugus 70 

Somis 75 

Soldiers' Home 65 

South Pasadena 19 

Summerland 78 

Tropico 68 

Tustin 58 

Terminal Island 64 

University 65 

Whittier ...54 

Wilmington 64 

Yuma 92 



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REPRESENTATIVES PASSENGER DEPARTMENT 

Chas. S. Fee, Passenger Traffic Manager San Francisco> CaL 

T. IT. Goodman, General Passenger Agent San Francisco> Cal 

R. A. Donaldson, Assistant General Passenger Agent San Francisco, Cal 

Jas Horsburgh, Jr., Assistant General Passenger Agent San Francisco Cal' 

H. R.Judah, Assistant General Passenger Agent. San Francisco Cal 

G. A. Parkyns, Assistant General Passenger Agent Los Angles' Cal' 

W. K. Coman, General Passenger Agent, Oregon Twines Portland Or' 

Thos. J. Anderson, General Passenger Agent, G. H. & S. A. Ry Houston Tex' 
Jos^Hellen, Assistant General Passenger Agent, G. H. & S. A. Ry. . Houston' Tex' 
F. E. Batturs, General Passenger Agent, M. I,. & T. R. R New Orleans, U 

GENERAL DIVISION AND TRAVELING AGENTS 

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Detroit, Mich.-F. B. Choate, General Agent ?« SS" 01 * Street 

El. Paso, Texas-G. Waldo, Division Passfnger and Freight Agfn, 7g h"& s a'T 
Frpsno, Cal.-J. F. Hixson, District Pass, and Freight Agent ' 10 f 3 rstS 

Kansas City, Mo.-H. G. Kaill, General Agent q'nV w , I f . 

Mexico City, Mex.-E. M. Cousin, General Affent \«Va Walnut Street 

MONTBREY, MEX.-E. F. 0'Bri£"<&? I 3^£"" * ^^ »_f '«■ *•■» 

New York, N. Y. -L. H. Nutting, Gen. East'n Pass Aet " t'™'^ ! K ' 

Oakland, Cal.-G. X. Forsyth, District Pass, and Freight AgV ' 12 San pfbloTvenue 

Philadelphia, Pa.-R. J. Smith, Agent . 632che S tm.t Sr3 

Pittsburg, PA.-G. G. Herring, General Agent 708-7TO Park " Bu ,S 

Reno, Nev.-A. H. Rising, Acting District Passenger and Frt' Agent g 
Sacramento, Cal.-J. r. Gray, District Passenger and Freight Agent'. '.'.'. 

Ian I&£? CaI T ' T^' *r ° ny ' ^f™ PaSS - & Frt ' ^ ent - -201 Main Street 
ban uiego, CAL.— F. M. Frye, Commercial Agent 901 Fifth Street 

Ian To"" Cal ' ^tL^ P ^" Ct ^T"^ « '^Ma^t ttree 

SeIttlf Wash E F k,H P ' £ 1Stnct 1 P 4 ass - and Frt - A & 16 South First Street 

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Tucson, ARIZ.-C. M. Burkhalter, District Passenger and Freight Agenf" 60 AVeDUe 
Washington, D.C.-A. J. Poston.Gen. Agt.Sunsft Excursions 8 .SlfpennsyivaniaAv: 

^^str^^T™ 1 5 ur °P ean Passenger Agent, Amerikahaus, 25, 27 Ferdinand 
Strasse, Hamburg Germany; 49 teadenhall St. London, E. C England- 18 
Cockspur St London, W. E., England; 25 Water St., Liverpoot, England 1 8 

MgIW ,1 39RneSt 0t i erda, f•• N | th ? rlands ; » *~ Ch'Wlle <£ Grace, 8 Antw'e p 
Belgium, 69 Rue St. Augustin. Paris, France. 

T * D *Q^5 a v ? e " eral Passenger Agent, San Francisco Overland Route, 4 Water 
Street, Yokohama, Japan. 

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